Lilian Marguerite Medland b. 1880

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Natural history painter and illustrator,London and Sydney. She showed from an early age a love for animals and a talent for sketching birds and animals in their natural habitat.

Citations

  • Kloot, Tess (October 1976), 'Lilian Medland’, in Emu, Volume 76, Number 4, .

  • Lawson, Elizabeth (1999), 'Birds’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

  • Whitley, G.P. (1972), 'The life & work of Tom Iredale’, Australian Zoologist, Volume 17, Number 2.

  • Anon (1956), 'A tribute to Lilian Medland’, Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW 1956-57.

  • Iredale, T. (1950), 'Birds of paradise and bower birds’, Melbourne, Vic. (ill. by L. Medland).

  • Iredale, T. (1956), 'Birds of New Guinea’, Melbourne, Vic. (ill. by L. Medland).

  • Information sourced from Iredale, Rex.

  • Kloot, Tess (1983), 'Tom Iredale’, in Australian Dictionary of Biography, [Nairn, Bede and Serle, Geoffrey (eds.)], Volume 9, Melbourne, Vic.

See also

  • 'Section 7, plate 304', Heritage biography.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book