Georgiana Zornlin Explained

Georgiana Margaretta Zornlin (1800–1881)^[1] was an English artist and writer.

She was the daughter of John Jacob Zornlin, a London merchant of Swiss background, and Elizabeth Alsager, who was the sister of the journalist Thomas Massa Alsager. The science writer Rosina Zornlin was her sister.^[2] In 1821 she published early lithographs of Christchurch, Hampshire with Joseph Netherclift.^[3] In the 1820s she was a pupil of Benjamin Robert Haydon.^[4]

Zornlin wrote an anonymous illustrated work A Paper Lantern for Puseyites, a light-hearted poetic spoof on young Tractarians. She also published works on the urim and thummim, and heraldry.^[2] William Jaggard's Shakespeare Bibliography (1911) records three papers of hers for the Shakespeare Society.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Georgiana Zornlin . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210520154341/https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp07778/georgiana-margaretta-zornlin . 20 May 2021 . 26 December 2020 . National Portrait Gallery, London.
2. Thomas . Ralph . 27 May 1905 . Zornlin Family . . . 10 . 74 . 403–404 . 26 December 2020 . Internet Archive.
3. Web site: Zornlin, Georgiana Margaretta 1800-1881 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160810101221/http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr94-24200/ . 10 August 2016 . 26 December 2020 . WorldCat Identities.
4. Web site: National Portrait Gallery - NPG 510. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090125235253/http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/about/primary-collection/documents-relating-to-primary-collection-works/npg-510a.php. 2009-01-25.
5. Web site: Shakespeare bibliography: a dictionary of every known issue of the writings of our national poet and of recorded opinion thereon in the English language;. William. Jaggard. 26 December 1911. Stratford-on-Avon : The Shakespeare press. 26 December 2020. Internet Archive.