Collecting ladies
Subtitle: Ferdinand von Mueller and women botanical artists
By: Penny Olsen
Contributors: National Library of Australia
Publisher: NLA Pub.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Canberra, ACT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780642277534
Subjects: Botanical artists; Biography; Women artists; Botanical illustration; History; Plants; Pictorial works
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-211), list of illustrations (p. 212-227) and index.