William Henry Harvey b. 5 February 1811

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Printmaker)
Botanical artist, lithographer and botanist, he travelled widely and between 1834 and 1863 published illustrations of South African, North American, British and Japanese plants, mostly algae.

Citations

  • Harvey, W. (1863), ''Phycologia Australica; or, a History of the Australian Seaweeds’, 5 vols’, London, England, UK (1858-1863), 300 hand-coloured lithographs.

  • Harvey, W. (1847), 'Nereis Australis; or, Illustrations of the Algae of the Southern Ocean’, London, England, UK, 50 hand-coloured lithographs.

  • Hooker, J. (1859), ''The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror …’ 2 & 3’, London, England, UK (1852-1859), Coloured lithographs of algae by Harvey.

  • 'Journal of Botany 1’, London, England, UK, plates 75, 76, 88, 89.

  • Ducker, S.C. (1972), 'William Henry Harvey’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, volume 4, Pike, Douglas (ed.), Melboune, Vic.

  • Praeger, R. (1913), 'Makers of British Botany’, Oliver, F. (ed.), Cambridge, UK.

  • '(Letters: Gray Herbarium)’, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

  • Ducker, S.C. (1988), 'The Contented Botanist’, Melbourne, Vic.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870