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This research will be featured as a frontispiece in the upcoming issue of Advanced Materials and has secured both domestic and international patents.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024
After all, even Martin Droeshout’s frontispiece portrait for the First Folio shows a face that looks, to some eyes, like a mask.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
The book's frontispiece is a sketch of two women who remind her that "even in the worst conditions, Black women have looked up at the night sky and wondered."
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2021
That book’s famous frontispiece, showing Wheatley putting quill pen to paper, finds an echo across the gallery, in a copy of “Prejudice Unveiled,” a 1907 poetry collection by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2020
The frontispiece for Maria’s caterpillar book features the first caterpillar she ever studied: the silkworm, perched on its host plant of mulberry leaves.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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