Fanny Elizabeth De Mole

Fanny Elizabeth De Mole was a British born botanical artist who illustrated and published the first book about South Australian flora, Wildflowers of South Australia(1861), having hand-coloured the lithographic illustrations in each copy.

Chronology
1856
Life event – Family emigrated to Australia from London, England.
1861
Career event – Published Wildflowers of South Australia

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Harriet Scott

Natural history illustrator whose paintings earned high praise from the Entomological Society and she was elected, like her sister Helena, as an honorary member.

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Eliza Kirk

Irish artist Eliza Kirk trained as a sculptor with her father, and is known mainly for miniature portrait busts. She exhibited regularly at the RHA between 1839 and 1859, and her ‘Infant Bacchus’ was included in the National Exhibition in Dublin in 1853.

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