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Flora: Australia's Most Curious Plants' showing a variety of colourful flowers on a light yellow background
Flora: Australia's Most Curious Plants

Tania McCartney

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NLA Publishing book
Book cover featuring botanical artwork of white flowers with red and black centers, surrounded by green foliage. The top section has a red banner with the text "Artists of the National Library of Australia." Below the artwork, in the lower third of the cover, is another red section with the title "Ellis Rowan" in large white text, followed by the subtitle "With an essay by Patricia Fullerton" in smaller white text.
Ellis Rowan

National Library of Australia

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NLA Publishing book
An illustrated book cover with 3 kangaroos and 3 emus in the foreground surrounded by native flora, with a lake and trees in the background

 Joseph Lycett, Views in Australia, or, New South Wales & Van Diemen's Land delineated, in fifty views with descriptive letter press, dedicated by permission to the Right Honble. Earl Bathurst, 1824, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1022559244

Lycett Collection

An album with 20 watercolours and 22 individual watercolours by Joseph Lycett. Most of the pieces focus on studies of Aboriginal people and drawings of native plants.

Collection guide
First Australians
A silver polished kettle with ornate cutouts and inscription and printed crest. It has a tealight underneath.

Charlotte & Edward Barnard, Rebecca Emes, Silver kettle and spirit lamp given by Queen Charlotte to Sir Joseph Banks, 1813, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-138405433

Joseph Banks Collection

Sir Joseph Banks was a pioneering botanist and explorer whose travels with Captain Cook helped shape our understanding of the natural world and influenced scientific exploration in Australia.

Collection guide
A sweeping landscape of a mountain range. The mountains are craggy and rocky. They are covered in mist.

Dombrovskis, Peter, 1945-1996. (1995). Frankland Range, Southwest National Park, Tasmania, 1995 [transparency] / Peter Dombrovskis. nla.gov.au/nla.obj-150007802

Understanding the living world

Module

This resource aligns to the Australian Curriculum for Year 4 Science – Science Understanding and Science as a Human Endeavour.

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Uncredited artist Glycine Rubicunda Dingy-Flowered Glycine Diadelphia Decandria Kennedia Rubicunda, Dusky Coral Pea, No 268, July 1 1794

Uncredited artist, Glycine Rubicunda. Dingy-Flowered Glycine: Diadelphia Decandria [Kennedia Rubicunda, Dusky Coral Pea], No. 268, July 1 1794

Australian flowers in print

Dive into two of the earliest English publications to feature Australian flowers and the stunning images they contain.

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Cover of the book 'Ellis Rowan: A Life in Pictures'
Ellis Rowan: A Life in Pictures

Christine Morton-Evans

Book
NLA Publishing book
Two colourful birds standing on branches eating fruit

Ellis Rowan, [Lorikeets (Geoffroyus heteroclitus)], 1917, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-138740512

Rowan Collection

919 watercolours and gouaches of flowers and birds of Australia and Papua New Guinea painted 1870-1920, plus a small quantity of personal papers.

Collection guide
Collection guide
Forster Collection

911 water colours by Adam Forster of Australian flowers, painted between 1916 and 1927.

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Collection guide
McLaren-Human Collection

81 Korean books, 44 Japanese books and 11 Chinese books. Subject matter of the Korean books ranges from history, literature and religion to cooking and gardening.

Collection guide
Collection guide
Jensen Collection

553 books from the 19th to mid-20th century with a particular strength in botany and gardening, among many other subjects.

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Collection guide
Okamura Collection

667 books and periodical issues in English relating to Japan published 1856-1942. The subject range is broad, including history, biography, religions, politics, literature, folklore, fine arts, gardening sports and more.

Collection guide

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