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:* [[File:Symbol delete vote.svg|16px]] New (28th, nom 2nd), long enough, no copyvio found via tool, [[Wikipedia:QPQ|QPQ]] done. [[Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing|Close paraphrasing]] (not within policy): {{talkquote|i=y|In that period she completed about 1500 botanical studies. The majority portray orchids ... More than 1000 orchid paintings, each signed L.S., survive in the Glasnevin Gardens, as well as portraits of other miscellaneous garden plants including Paeonia, Sarracenia, Helleborus, and Lachenalia.}} [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/59821] {{talkquote|i=y|Over this time she completed about 1500 botanical studies the majority of which portray orchids. More than 1000 orchid paintings, each signed L.S., survive in the Glasnevin Gardens, as well as portraits of other garden plants including Paeonia, Sarracenia, Helleborus, and Lachenalia.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lydia_Shackleton&oldid=579947723] Please ping me if I don't respond. <span style='font:1.1em"Avenir";padding:1px 3px;border:1px solid #909'><font color="#909">czar</font>&nbsp;[[User:Czar|<font color="#909">♔</font>]]</span> 15:49, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
  
 
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Lydia Shackleton

Painting of a hellebore by Shackleton, gouache and watercolour

  • ... that although Lydia Shackleton eventually went blind, over 1,000 of her orchid paintings (example pictured) survive?

Created/expanded by K1167189 (talk), Gobonobo (talk), Edwardx (talk). Nominated by Edwardx (talk) at 21:07, 2 November 2013 (UTC).