Scott, Harriet (1830 - 1907)

Summary

Harriet Scott was educated by her father, Alexander Walker Scott, and acquired a considerable knowledge of Australian plants, animals and insects. Her paintings earned high praise from the Entomological Society and she was elected, like her sister Helena, as an honorary member.

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Archival resources

Australian Museum

• Papers of Harriet and Helena Scott., 1850 - 1890, Series 192; Australian Museum. Details
• Papers of Harriet and Helena Scott., Series 193; Australian Museum. Details

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

• Edward Pearson Ramsay - Records, 1860 - 1912, ML MSS 563; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Linnean Society of New South Wales - Records, 1880s - 1920s, Pic Acc 2026; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Scott Family - Records, 1777 - 1925, ML MSS 38; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regularly edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Books

• Finney, Vanessa, Transformations: Harriet and Helena Scott, colonial Sydney's finest natural history painters (Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2018), 220 pp. Details
• Hooker, Claire, Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004), 215 pp. Details
• Krefft, Gerard, The snakes of Australia : an illustrated and descriptive catalogue of all the known species (Sydney: Government Printer, 1869), 100 pp. Details
• Krefft, Gerard, The mammals of Australia illustrated by Harriett Scott and Helena Forde for the Council of Education : with a short account of all the species hitherto described (Sydney: Government Printer, 1871), 45 pp. Details
• MacInnis, Peter, Curious Minds: the Discoveries of Australian Naturalists (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2012), 213 pp. Pages 130-135. Details
• Norton, Leonie, Women of Flowers: Botanical Art in Australia from the 1830s to the 1960s (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2009), 126 pp. Details
• Olsen, Penny, Collecting Ladies: Ferdinand von Mueller and Women Botanical Artists (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2012), 248 pp. Details
• Scott, Harriet and Scott, Helena, Historical drawings of moths and butterflies (Roseville, N.S.W.: Craftsman House, 1888), 146 pp. Details
• Scott, Harriet and Scott, Helena; introduced and selected by Marion Ord, Historical drawings of native flowers (Roseville, N.S.W.: Craftsman House, 1988), 136 pp. Details
• Scott, Harriet and Scott, Helena; with descriptions, general and systematic by A.W. Scott, Australian Lepidoptera and their Transformations Drawn from the Life [volume 1] (London: J. van Voorst, 1864), 30 pp. Details
• Scott, Harriet and Scott, Helena; with descriptions, general and systematics by A.W. Scott, Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations. Vol. II (London: Sydney: J. van Voorst: Australian Museum, 1890-1898), 36 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Gray, Nancy, 'Scott, Alexander Walker (1800-1883), entomologist and entrepreneur' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 6: 1851 - 1890 R - Z, Bede Nairn, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1976), pp. 93-94. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/scott-alexander-walker-4545. Details

Journal Articles

• Ord, Marion, 'The Scott Sisters: Art Treasures of the 19th Century Revealed', Australian Natural History, 22 (1987), 194-198. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12068549. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/55780710. Details
• 'Scott, Harriet (1830-1907)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-494491. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Scott, Harriet (1830-1907), Biographical Entry', in Australian Women's Archives Project, National Foundation for Australian Women, 2002, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0045b.htm. Details

Reviews

• Norton, Leonie, Women of Flowers: Botanical Art in Australia from the 1830s to the 1960s (2009)
  Cohn, Helen M., Historical Records of Australian Science, 21 (2), (2010), 292-4, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR10012. Details