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Ellis Rowan (1848-1922)
[Nutmeg Pigeon] [1917]
watercolouc; 76 x 56 cm
From the Pictorial Collection

Ellis Rowan travelled Australia and the world pursuing her career as a brilliant painter of wildflowers, insects and birds. A self-taught artist, she combined scientific accuracy with great freshness and a prodigious output. From the 1870s to her death she painted some 3000 pictures, winning many prizes, the approval of botanists and the patronage of royalty.

The National Library holds the largest collection of Ellis Rowan's work - 947 of her paintings, mainly in watercolour and gouache. The Library has recently celebrated these holdings by reproducing samples of her artistry in the Ellis Rowan Address Book and a greeting card collection.

 

March 1999 Volume IX Number 6

A BIRD IN THE HAND

Elizabeth Lawson briefs readers on the Library's latest exhibition

'HIS HEART WAS IN HIS STORIES': RECALLING HENRY LAWSON

Barry York investigates the Oral History recordings relating to an Australian icon

BIBLIOGRAPHER AND COLLECTOR: THE LEGACY OF SIR ]OHN FERGUSON

D.W.A. Baker profiles the figure behind the Ferguson Collection

THE POET OF THE LAKES

Edward Duyker reflects on William Wordsworth - and Wordsworth holdings in the National Library

'AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS': HERBERT AND IVY BROOKES

Peter Cochrane contextualises one of the Library's larger manuscript collections

FRIENDS

A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia

NLA PUBLICATIONS

Birds!: A range of gift ideas to accompany the latest exhibition

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