Lady Margaret Richardson-Bunbury b. 1795

  • Artist (Weaver),
  • Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Lady Margaret Richardson-Bunbury was born in 1795. She was an embroiderer and garden designer. Lady Richardson-Bunbury formed the first Western Australian branch of the British & Foreign Bible Society in Picton.
Tags: Embroidery, Garden design

Citations

  • Erickson, Dorothy (1989), 'Antipodean Idylls: Background to the Decorative Arts of the early settlers in Western Australia 1829-1850’, The Australian Antique Collector, 38, July-December, pages 81-3.

  • Sanders, Theodora (1975), 'Bunbury’, Roebuck Society, Canberra, ACT.

  • Robins, Sally (1981/1982), 'Colonial Crafts Research Project’, Crafts Council of Western Australia, Perth, WA, item 142.

  • Erickson, Dorothy in Kerr Joan (ed.) (1995), 'Heritage: the National Women’s Art Book’, Craftsman House, Sydney, NSW, pages 95 and 322.

  • 'Richardson Bunbury Family Archives’, J. S. Battye Library of West Australian History, WA, MN 1648, Acc. 5070A.

  • North, Marianne; edited by Vellacott, Helen (1986), 'Some Recollections of a Happy Life’, Arnold, Caufield, page 81.

  • Erickson, Rica (1988), 'The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre-1829-1888’, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA, (4 volumes.), volume 4, R-Z, pages 2619-2620,.

Initial data sources

  • Western Australian artists, designers & makers (1829-1959)