Eleanor Cross Marquand (15 Apr 1873– 27 Feb 1950) was an authority on the representation and symbolism of flowers and trees in art, particularly of floral emblems in the early Christian church. In recognition of this work, she received an honorary Master of Arts Degree from

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in 1948, only the 4th woman in the history of the university to receive this honor.Mrs. Allan Marquand, obituary. The New York Times (New York) 28 Feb 1950

Biography

Marquand was born in New York, the daughter of Richard J. Cross and Matilda Redmond Cross. Her father was a member of the

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banking firm of Morton, Bliss & Co. led by Governor

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. In June 1896, she married

Allan Marquand Allan Marquand (; December 10, 1853 – September 24, 1924) was an art historian at Princeton University and a curator of the Princeton University Art Museum. Marquand is notable as one of the foremost art historians and critics of his time, a ...

, then a professor at Princeton. He would go on to be the founder and first chairman of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton. Her activities in organized horticulture include membership in the

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, the

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, the Horticultural Society of New York, and the Garden Club of Princeton. She spoke on plant illustration and wrote for the Garden Club of American Bulletin and the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. She was a founding member of the

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, a group for women bibliophiles. In 1910, she became the first woman to serve on the Princeton Board of Education. Other civic activities included service in the Village Improvement Association and as a board member of the State Hospital in Trenton (now the

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.) She died on February 27, 1950, in Princeton Hospital. After her death, her estate bequeathed Marquand's botanical and horticultural library to the

. It consists of 408 volumes and a collection of notebooks, scrapbooks, photographs, seed and nursery catalogs, reprints, pamphlets and periodicals.Eleanor Cross Marquand papers 1905 – 1934. New York Botanical Garden Archive

Bibliography

* Marquand, E. (1938) ''Plant symbolism in the unicorn tapestries''. New York, College Art Association * Marquand, E. (1941) ''The history of plant illustration to 1850''. Washington, D.C, The Garden Club of America * Marquand, E. (1924) ''Flora of Jekyl Island, as collected by Dr. and Mrs. Frederic S. Lee, March, 1914; with additions, notes and illustrations by Mrs. Allan Marquand, March, 1923''. Revised and edited by Dr. John K. Small, January, 1924. * Marquand, E. (ca 1943) ''Dioscorides : Materia medica (Morgan ms. M.652)'' : plant identifications and miscellaneous notes / ca. 1943 * Marquand, E and Stockton, H H S. (1937) ''The trees of Guernsey'' Manuscript

References

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