Collecting Ladies

Women Botanical Illustrators and Ferdinand Von Mueller

Collecting Ladies
Penny Olsen
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Paperback
h250 x 220mm - 248pg
1 Apr 2013 AU
9780642277534
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Around 1870, Ferdinand von Mueller, the greatest Australian botanist of the nineteenth century, began to advertise in several newspapers across Australia for lady plant collectors. This was at a time when women typically had little recourse to science, or contact with men outside their circle of friends, making Muellers network of ladies quite extraordinary. Collecting Ladies profiles 14 of Muellers coterie of women collectors. Included are Fanny Charsley, Louisa Atkinson, Annie Walker and Ellis Rowan for whom Mueller made time to assist in pursuit of their own passions. He identified the plants they painted and provided letters of introduction to publishers and scientists. Together, these ladies produced some of the most beautiful books and botanical art to come out of Australia in the nineteenth century, covering all the Australian colonies.
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ISBN-13: 9780642277534
Published: 1 Apr 2013
Published In: Australia
Imprint: National Library of Australia
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Format: Paperback
Height: 250mm
Width: 220mm
Pages: 248
Dewey: 743.7

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