Book ID: 103149
Olsen, Penny
Collecting Ladies. Women Botanical Illustrators and Ferdinand von Mueller. 2013. illus. X, 237 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.
Profiles 14 of Mueller's coterie of women collectors. Included areFanny Charsley, Louisa Atkinson, Annie Walker and Ellis Rowan. Muelleridentified the plants they painted and provided letters of introductionto publishers and scientists. Together, these ladies produced some ofthe most beautiful books and botanical art to come out of Australia inthe nineteenth century, covering all the Australian colonies.