Creator Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826)

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Native to Queensland. Common names include red silky oak, dwarf silky oak, Banks' grevillea and Byfield waratah...Master illustrator Ferdinand Bauer accompanied Matthew Flinders on the voyage of the Investigator to circumnavigate Australia, 1801-1803. He returned to England on the Investigator, accompanied by 11 cases of drawings containing 1,542 Australian plants, 180 Norfolk Island plants, and over 300 animals. Bauer’s original drawings are preserved in the Natural History Museum, London, and a selection published in his ‘Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae’, London, 1813. They are some of the finest and most historically significant Australian natural history illustrations ever produced.

Source: From an original Illustrationes