Anna Atkins' Death
Born (Birthday) March 16, 1799
Death Date June 9, 1871
Age of Death 72 years
Cause of Death Fatigue
Profession Photographer
The photographer Anna Atkins died at the age of 72. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Remembered for her pioneering botanical and photographic publication Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, she is also notable for her collaborations with Anne Dixon on several photographic books about ferns.
The daughter of Anne Children and prominent natural scientist John George Children, she spent her youth in Kent, England. She married John Pelly Atkins in the mid 1820s.