Ferdinand Bauer
Ferdinand Bauer Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1821) is generally recognised as the finest late 18th / early 19th century botanical artist. He was appointed Natural History Draughtsman, on the recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks, to Captain Mathew Flinder’s circumnavigation of Australia in HMS Investigator (1801-1803). As an obsessive perfectionist, he engraved his own plates from his own…
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