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C1893
Ophideres Atkinsoni. Phojopsyche eximia.
Very rare lithograph from the series on Australian Lepidoptera, by the Scott sisters. Common name: Green fruit-piercing moth Modern binomial name: Eudocima salaminia First described : Crammer 1777 Distribution: Southern NT, QLD and NSW. Common name: Forest Splendid Ghost Moth Modern binomial … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Ophideres Atkinsoni. Phojopsyche eximia.
Date:
C1893
Engraver:
Condition:
Creasing to lower left hand corner and some offsetting, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Lithograph with original hand colouring.
Image Size:
405mm
x 305mm
Paper Size:
413mm
x 335mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1893
Description:
Very rare lithograph from the series on Australian Lepidoptera, by the Scott sisters.
Common name: Green fruit-piercing moth
Modern binomial name: Eudocima salaminia
First described : Crammer 1777
Distribution: Southern NT, QLD and NSW.
Common name: Forest Splendid Ghost Moth
Modern binomial name: Aenetus eximia
First described : Scott 1869
Distribution: Southern QLD to TAS.
The Lepidoptera paintings
“Equally talented, it is difficult to tell one sister’s work from the other. However, their combined approach makes the Lepidoptera paintings exceptional.” Fran Dorey Australian Museum
From Scott, A.W., Australian Lepidoptera and their Transformations.
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 15513c..
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 2331180
State Library New South Wales: Call number PXE 78/11
Harriet Scott (1830 - 1907)
Scott and her sister Helena Forde (1832-1910) (nee Scott) were born in the Rocks area of Sydney to Harriet Calcott, daughter of an ex-convict, and Alexander Walter Scott, a wealthy man who would become known in the colony as an entomologist, grazier and entrepreneur. Helena and Harriet (known as the Scott sisters) were two of 19th century Australia’s most prominent natural history illustrators and possibly the first professional female illustrators in the country. In 1846, Harriet and Helena, then aged 16 and 14, moved from Sydney to the isolated Ash Island in the Hunter River estuary with their mother, Harriet Calcott, and father, entomologist and entrepreneur Alexander Walker Scott. There, surrounded by unspoilt native vegetation and under the inspiring tutelage of their artistic father, their shared fascination with the natural world grew. For almost 20 years, the sisters lived and worked on the island, faithfully recording its flora and fauna, especially the butterflies and moths. The sisters continued to draw and paint commercially for the rest of their lives. Harriet drew botanical illustrations for the 1879, 1884 and 1886 editions of the Railway Guide to New South Wales, and they both executed designs for Australia’s first Christmas cards in 1879. Harriet died at Granville NSW in 1907 and Helena in 1910. Reference; Australian Museum.
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Edmund Thomas (1827 - 1867)
Thomas was a painter, lithographer and possibly photographer, best known for his topographical prints of Sydney and Melbourne, and lithographic portraits. He was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and arrived at Port Phillip on 25 November 1852 in the Blorenge. Listed as a practising artist of 118 Collins Street East, Melbourne, Thomas showed four paintings at the Victorian Fine Arts Society’s 1853 exhibition. Thomas was in Sydney by the end of 1854, the year he dated a lithograph of Manly Beach. By early 1855 he was in partnership with Scipio Clint as Clint & Thomas, Portrait and Landscape Painters, Lithographic and General Draughtsmen of Jamison Street.
