Capturing flora
Subtitle: 300 years of Australian botanical art
By: Richard Aitken ... [et al.] ; with foreword by Alex George AM
Contributors: Morrison, Gordon, 1958-; Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Publisher: Art Gallery of Ballarat
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ballarat, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780987234520
Subjects: Botanical illustration; Exhibitions; Plants in art; Australian Art; Flowers in art
Other titles: Capturing flora :; 300 years of Australian botanical art; Three hundred years of Australian botanical art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-283) and index.

Published for the exhibition held September 25-December 2, 2012.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Alex George AM; title: A willdampia by any other name : a short digression on botanical taxonomy and nomenclature / Gordon Morrison; title: Curious cones and gigantic lyllies : early encounters with the Australian flora / Jennifer Jones-O'Neill; title: New Holland 'exoticks': Australian plants, global gardening / Richard Aitken; title: 'The desert shall rejoice and bloom' : botanical prints in colonial Australia / Thomas A. Darragh; title: The ornamental garden : lady amateurs and female botanical artists, 1830-1930 / Julie Collett; title: Decline and rebirth : botanical art in Australia from 1900 to the present day / Gordon Morrison.