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C1886
Eremophilia Hughesii F.v.M.
Scarce c.19th lithograph of Eremophila hughesii from Ferdinand von Mueller’s, Description and illustrations of the Myoporinous plants of Australia. Von Mueller collected the specimen between Barrow Range and Rawlinson Range during Ernest Giles’s expedition. The specific epithet (hughesii) honours Sir Walter … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Eremophilia Hughesii F.v.M.
Date:
C1886
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Lithograph.
Image Size:
242mm
x 250mm
Paper Size:
205mm
x 309mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1886
Description:
Scarce c.19th lithograph of Eremophila hughesii from Ferdinand von Mueller’s, Description and illustrations of the Myoporinous plants of Australia.
Von Mueller collected the specimen between Barrow Range and Rawlinson Range during Ernest Giles’s expedition. The specific epithet (hughesii) honours Sir Walter Hughes, the founder of the University of Adelaide.
Common names: Eremophila
Modern binomial name: Eremophila hughesii
First described: Von Mueller, 1874
Distribution: WA, NT
References:
Nissen, C. Die Botanische Buchillustration. Stuttgart 1966: BBI 1419.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID: 718711
State Library New South Wales: Record Identifier 74VKDlEeW8oy
State Library Queensland: CallNum: 11032481
Nissen, C. Die Botanische Buchillustration. Stuttgart 1966: BBI 1419.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID: 718711
State Library New South Wales: Record Identifier 74VKDlEeW8oy
State Library Queensland: CallNum: 11032481
Ferdinand von Mueller (1825 - 1895)
Von Mueller was a botanist, trained in pharmacy and botany in his native Germany before emigrating to Adelaide in 1847. Appointed inaugural government botanist in Melbourne in 1853, over the next few years he collected specimens of much of Victoria’s native vegetation, spending many months in previously-unexplored alpine country. As botanist to the North Australian Exploring Expedition in 1855, he travelled 8 000 km in 16 months, identifying some 800 new species and finding them their place in the universal classification system developed by Linnaeus. In 1857 he was appointed director of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, but their progress was slow and he was replaced in 1873. By that time, he had been appointed a baron by the King of Württemberg; he was appointed KCMG in 1879. Seeing both the commercial potential of native forests, and the need to preserve them, in the late 1870s he prepared a report on the resources of Western Australia, advocating the establishment of a forest administration. He was a fellow of the Royal Geographical, Linnaean and Royal Societies and was awarded a Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1888.
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Robert Graff (1841 - 1914)
Australian botanical illustrator and lithographer. Illustrated several monographs for Ferdinand Mueller including, Description and illustration of the Myoporinacus Plants of Australia, (1886-1887).
