Item #7043 Waratahs and Flannel Flowers c1894-'97. Margaret Flockton.
Margaret Flockton

Waratahs and Flannel Flowers c1894-'97

Watercolour
36 x 42 cm
Signed; inscribed on reverse Waratahs and Flannel Flowers, Australia

Provenance: Private collection UK until 2021

This watercolour was probably No. 186, Wild Flowers, N.S.W., £18.18.0,  Spring Exhibition, Art Society of NSW, 1897.

It was also exhibited and sold, at the Exhibition of Australian Art, May, 1898, Grafton Galleries, London. No. 134,  Some Wild Flowers £18.18.0 
Margaret Flockton  (1861-1953)  was Australia’s first and most celebrated professional botanical artist. 
For more information on the artist refer the excellent biography  by Louise Wilson, Margaret Flockton, A Fragrant Memory  Wakefield Press, 2016

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