Sydney Parkinson
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Sydney Parkinson was a Scottish botanical illustrator and natural history artist. He was the first European artist to visit Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti. Parkinson was the first Quaker to visit N
Self-portrait
Silky monkey, illustration in Thomas Pennant's 1771 book Synopsis of Quadrupeds based on a painting by Parkinson.
Portrait of Otegoowgoow, son of a chief of the Bay of Islands. He has a comb in his hair, an ornament of green stone in his ear, and another of a fish's tooth round his neck. Drawing by Parkinson 1769 above, 1773 engraving below.
Banksia serrata
Ann Lee (illustrator)
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Ann Lee was a British botanical illustrator who also illustrated birds and insects.
Sydney Parkinson
…exhibitions. Parkinson began to give drawing lessons, and the Scottish nurseryman James Lee, a fellow Quaker, employed him as teacher to his daughter Ann. Lee introduced Parkinson to Joseph Banks in 1767. Through Banks, Parkinson also established contact with the zoologist Thomas Pennant. Parkinson…
Anne Lee drawings of Asclepias curassavica, Anagallis monelli, 1771
Certhia familiaris Linnaeus Eurasian treecreeper- Ann Lee - 107-1973-26
Goliath Beetle (the underside of) by Ann Lee
Lanius excubitor Linnaeus: great grey shrike by Ann Lee