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Frederick Polydore Nodder

1770 – 1800

English flora and fauna illustrator

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About Frederick Polydore Nodder

Lived 1770 – 1800. Frederick Polydore Nodder was a British botanical illustrator, illustrator, naturalist, botanist, ornithologist and entomologist.

Frederick Polydore Nodder (fl. 1770 – 1801) was an English illustrator, engraver, painter, and publisher.

Nodder illustrated and published George Shaw's periodical The Naturalist's Miscellany, and Thomas Martyn's Flora Rustica. He also helped Joseph Banks prepare the Banks' Florilegium and converted most of Sydney Parkinson's Australian plant drawings from the expedition into paintings and helped engrave them for publication. He illustrated the first published scientific description of the duck-billed platypus. There are Nodder drawings and paintings of Australian birds and butterflies in the Natural History Division of the National Museum of Ireland.

Toward the end of his life, his second son Richard P. Nodder began contributing illustrations to The Naturalist's Miscellany, and after his death Frederick's wife Elizabeth took over as publisher. Family members with other initials also contributed illustrations.

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Born
1770
Birth century
Died
1800
Occupation
Botanical illustrator, illustrator, naturalist, botanist, ornithologist, entomologist
Also known as
F.P. Nodder

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Who was Frederick Polydore Nodder?

English flora and fauna illustrator

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Frederick Polydore Nodder was born in 1770.

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Frederick Polydore Nodder died in 1800.

What was Frederick Polydore Nodder's occupation?

Frederick Polydore Nodder was a botanical illustrator, illustrator, naturalist, botanist, ornithologist and entomologist.

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Frederick Polydore Nodder was British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Frederick Polydore Nodder

· Wikidata: Q955932

· DBpedia: Frederick Polydore Nodder

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