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Ellis Rowan
Flower painting: Pandorea jasminoides and Clematis aristata (c. 1887)
watercolour and gouache
(74.8 × 53.1 cm) (image) 76.2 × 54.4 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1890
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Flower painting: Pandorea jasminoides and Clematis aristata
(c. 1887)
Medium
watercolour and gouache
Measurements
(74.8 × 53.1 cm) (image) 76.2 × 54.4 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1890
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Ellis Rowan was an artist, explorer, naturalist and self-proclaimed ‘flower hunter’ who taught herself botanical illustration. She travelled throughout Australia, Asia and North America from the 1870s until the 1920s documenting wildflowers, birds and insects in their natural settings. In the late 1880s, she embarked on an ambitious expedition to document and illustrate the complete flora of Queensland. Rowan probably painted this watercolour at this time, and it is likely one of the paintings she exhibited in the Centennial International Exhibition in Melbourne in 1888, for which she received significant praise.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed (diagonally) in white watercolour (in image) l.l.: Ellis Rowan
Accession Number
1995.325
Department
Australian Prints & Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Frame
Original, maker unknown