Person
De Mole, Fanny Elizabeth (1835 - 1866)
- Born
- 1 March 1835
London, United Kingdom - Died
- 26 December 1866
Willunga, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Botanical artist
Summary
Fanny Elizabeth De Mole was a British born botanical artist.
She illustrated and published the first book about South Australian flora, Wildflowers of South Australia(1861), having hand-coloured the lithographic illustrations in each copy.
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Chronology
- 1856
- Life event - Family emigrated to Australia from London, England.
- 1861
- Publication - Book: Wildflowers of South Australia
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
- Olsen, Penny, Collecting Ladies: Ferdinand von Mueller and Women Botanical Artists (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2012), 248 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Symon, David, 'Wildflowers of South Australia (1861) by Fanny de Mole', Archives of Natural History, 30 (1) (2003), 139-48. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29913462. Details
- 'De Mole, Fanny Elizabeth (18350301-18661226)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1485418. Details
See also
- Hooker, Claire, Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004), 215 pp. Details
- Maroske, Sara, '"The Whole Great Continent as a Present": Nineteenth-century Australian Women Workers in Science' in On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science, Farley Kelly, ed. (Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 1993), pp. 13-34. Details
Rebecca Rigby
Created: 25 January 2012, Last modified: 3 October 2012