Helena Scott b. 11 April 1832

Also known as Mrs Edward Forde, Nellie Scott, Helena Forde
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Like her elder sister Harriet, Helena was a professional artist and natural science collector and illustrator. She was an accomplished natural history artist and both she and her sister received commissions from the leading colonial and international natural scientists of the day to illustrate their work.

Citations

  • Bennett, George (1860), 'Gatherings’.

  • Krefft, J.L.G. (1869), 'Snakes of Australia and Mammals of Australia’.

  • Krefft, J.L.G. (1869), 'Snakes of Australia and Mammals of Australia’.

  • Scott, Alexander Walker (1864), 'Australian Lepidoptera and their Transformations’.

  • Gray, Nancy (1976), 'Scott, Alexander Walker (1800 – 1883)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 6, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Victoria, pp 93-94.

  • Ord, Marion (1988), 'Historical Drawings of Moths and Butterflies and Historical Drawings of Native Flowers’, vols 1-2, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • (1864), Sydney Morning Herald, 01-13.

  • Ramsay, E.P. (1860), 'Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney ms 563 1860/1912.

  • 'Scott Family Papers’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.

  • 'Scott drawings, paintings, sketches and published works’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney; Australian Museum; private collections.

  • (1865), Transcriptions of the Linnaean Society New South Wales, 1862/1865.

  • Ramsay, Edward Pearson (1862), 'On the Oology of Australia’, 1862/1865.

  • Woolls, William (1867), 'A Contribution to the Flora of Australia’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • Cox, J.C., 'Monograph of Australian Land Shells’, 1868.

  • (1910), '[obituary]’, Sydney Morning Herald, November.

  • Ord, Marion (1995), 'Scott, Helena’, Heritage, ed. Kerr, Joan.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions