Ferdinand Lucas Bauer b. 20 January 1760

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Ferdinand Lucas Bauer never emigrated to Australia, but as part of the 1801 Flinders's expedition team, he captured some of the most detailed and beautiful botanical drawings ever produced of Australian flora and fauna.

Citations

  • Endlicher, S. (1833), 'Prodromus Florae Norfolkicae’, Illustrations by Bauer.

  • Lindley, J. (1821), 'Digitalium Monographia’, Illustrations by Bauer.

  • Flinders, M. (1814), 'A Voyage to Terra Australis’, Illustrations by Bauer.

  • Sibthorp, J. & Smith J. E. (1806), 'Flora Graeca’, 1806/1840. Illustrations by Bauer.

  • Lambert, A. B. (1803), 'A Description of the Genus Pinus’, 1803/1824. Illustrations by Bauer.

  • Gilbert, L. A., 'Ferdinand Lucas Bauer’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 3.

  • Blunt, W. (1950), 'The Art of Botanical Illustration’, London, England, UK.

  • Britten, J., 'Ferdinand Bauer’s drawings of Australian plants’, Journal of Botany British and Foreign, vol. 47.

  • Bruce, M. (1970), 'John Sibthorp’, Taxon, vol. 19.

  • Desmond, R. (1977), 'Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists’, London, England, UK.

  • Gillespie, C. (ed) (1970), Dictionary of Scientific Biography, New York, USA.

  • Edwards, P. (1981), 'Botany of Flinders’ voyage’, People and Plants in Australia, Sydney, Carr, D. & Carr, S. (eds).

  • Lhotsky, J., 'Biographical sketch of Ferdinand Bauer’, London Journal of Botany, vol. 2.

  • Nissen, C. (1951), 'Die botanische Buchillustration 1’, Stuttgart, Germany.

  • Norst, M. J. (1989), 'Ferdinand Bauer: The Australian Natural History Drawings’, Port Melbourne, Vic.

  • Stafleu, F. & Cowan, R. (1976), 'Taxonomic Literature’, Utrecht.

  • Stearn, W. T. (1960), 'Franz Bauer and Ferdinand Bauer, masters of botanical illustration’, Endeavour, vol. 19 'An introduction to Robert Brown’s “Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae”’, preface to facsimile edn, Weinheim 1960, 'Sibthorp, Smith, the “Flora Graeca” and the “Flora Graeca Prodromus”’, Taxon 16 (1967), 'From Theophrastus and Dioscorides.

  • Watts, P. & Pomfret, J. (1998), 'The Exquisite Eye: Ferdinand Bauer in Australia’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Endeavour, vol. 19.

  • Norst, Marlene J. (Dr) (1989), 'Ferdinand Bauer: Australian Natural History Drawings’, British Museum of Natural History, London, England, UK.

  • Watts, Peter (1998), '(Ferdinand Bauer’s Australian work)’, Historic Houses Trust catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

  • Stearn, W. T. (1960), 'An introduction to Robert Brown’s “Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae’, Weinheim (preface to facsimile edition).

  • Stearn, W. T. (1967), 'Sibthorp, Smith, the “Flora Graeca Prodromus”’, Taxon, vol. 16.

  • Stearn, W. T. (1976), 'From Theophrastus and Dioscorides to Sibthorp and Smith: The background and origin of the “Flora Graeca”’, Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society, vol. 8.

  • Stearn, W. T. and Blunt, W. (1976), 'The Australian Flower Paintings of Ferdinand Bauer’, London, England, UK.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions