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| birth_name = Catherine Teresa Murray<br />
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'''Catherine Teresa Cookson''' or '''Mrs James Cookson''' (née Murray) (''fl.'' 1830s) was an [[Ireland|Irish]] [[botany|botanical]] artist, who documented some of the botany of [[India]].<ref name=CLARA>{{cite web|title=Catherine Teresa Cookson|url=http://clara.nmwa.org/index.php?g=entity_detail_print&entity_id=18195|website=CLARA Database of Women Artists|publisher=National Museum of Women in the Arts|accessdate=12 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304192501/http://clara.nmwa.org/index.php?g=entity_detail_print&entity_id=18195|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=DSI>{{cite web|title=Catherine Teresa Cookson|url=http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/hi/gnt/dsi2/index.php?table_name=dsi&function=details&where_field=id&where_value=5697|website=Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450-1950|accessdate=12 July 2015}}</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
Catherine Teresa Murray, appears to have been from [[County Wicklow]], was the daughter of a P. Murray. Little is known of her life, but it has been assumed that she is the wife of George James Cookson (1805-1838), a member of the [[Bengal Army|Bengal Artillery]], whom she married on 8 June 1832.<ref name=Butler>{{cite book|last1=Butler|first1=Patricia|title=Irish Botanical Illustrators & Flower Painters|date=2000|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|location=Suffolk|isbn=9781851493579|page=104}}</ref><ref name=Desmond>{{cite book|last1=Desmond|first1=Ray|title=Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers|date=1994|publisher=Taylor & Francis|location=London|isbn=9780850668438|page=166}}</ref> Her husband died of smallpox on 20 January 1838.<ref>{{cite book|last1=East India Company|title=The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Volume 26|date=1838|publisher=Wm. H. Allen & Company|page=105}}</ref><br />
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==Artistic work==<br />
The work that she is known for is ''Flowers Drawn and Painted in India'', which was published around 1835. Cookson wrote and illustrated the volume, and it is her only known work.<ref name=Butler /> The volume contains 31 botanical drawings of indigenous Indian plants.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hagglund|first1=Betty|title=The Botanical Writings of Maria Graham|journal=Journal of Literature and Science|date=2011|volume=4|issue=1|page=48|doi=10.12929/jls.04.1.04|url=http://www.literatureandscience.org/issues/JLS_4_1/JLS_vol_4_no_1_Hagglund.pdf|doi-access=free}}</ref> The plates are hand-coloured lithographs. The bound album was presented to the [[Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh]] Library by [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]] on the opening of the new Herbarium and Library building in 1964.<ref name=Butler /><br />
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