Person
Fountaine, Margaret Elizabeth (1862 - 1940)
- Born
- 1862
England - Died
- 1940
- Occupation
- Entomological artist and Lepidopterist
Summary
Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine was one of the most prolific and famous butterfly collectors of her time. She not only collected the butterflies but breed them so she could study their lifecycle. Fountaine became an expert in tropical butterfly life cycles and was a talented artist who made many detailed and beautiful watercolours of her specimens.
In 1890 Fountaine left her sedate family life in the United Kingdom to travel the world in search of butterflies. She travelled extensively through Europe, America, India and South Africa before coming to Queensland, Australia in 1914 where she remained until 1917. Fountaine's collection of close to 22,000 butterflies, including 153 specimens from Queensland, were bequeathed to the Castle Museum in Norwich, UK.
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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
- Scott-Stokes, Natascha, Wild and Fearless: the life of Margaret Fountaine (Peter Owen Ltd, 2006). Details
Edited Books
- McKay, Judith ed., Brilliant Careers: Women Collectors and Illustrators in Queensland (Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1997), 80 pp. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q524561. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/43036323. Details
- 'Fountaine, Margaret (1862-1940)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1223711. Details
Annette Alafaci
Created: 25 September 2006, Last modified: 5 April 2022