Person
Barrett, Harcourt (1838 - 1904)
- Born
- 1838
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 1904
- Occupation
- Botanical artist and Lithographer
Summary
H. Barrett was a botanical lithographer who was active in the 1880s. Barrett worked with artist Rosa Fiveash (1854-1938) on John Ednie Brown's "The Forest Flora of South Australia" between 1882 and 1890, containing some very detailed, coloured lithographic plates of eucalypts.
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Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Books
- Brown, John Ednie, The forest flora of South Australia (Adelaide: Government Printer, 1882), 94 pp. http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn2282454. Details
- Wrigley, J.; and Fagg, M., Eucalypts: a Celebration (Crows Nest Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010), 344 pp. Details
Resources
- 'Barrett, H.', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1508919. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Barrett, Harcourt (1838 - 1904)', http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/barrett-h.html. Details
- 'Barrett, Harcourt (1838 - 1904)', in Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, Australian National Herbarium, Biographical Notes, 1 March 2016, http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/barrett-h.html. Details
Christine Moje
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