Although her work is held in the National Library of Australia, Rusden is still remembered for briefly catching the eye of Houston Mitchell. His words: ...
Russell, a sketcher, sign-writer and architect. Abandoned Australia for England, showing at the Royal Academy in 1848. Only being lured back by the gold rush, ...
presumed alternative (misspelt) name for the artist S.T. Gill, whose casual attitude to spelling was notorious and used to reversing his initials for lithographs.
According to Marion Mahony Griffin, the botanical drawings of Eric Saunders demonstrate the "ever recurring voluptuous feminine forms explicit in nature".