Ferdinand Bauer’s field drawings of endemic Western Australian plants made at King George Sound and Lucky Bay, December 1801 – January 1802. I

Abstract

Thirty-five field drawings of Western Australian endemic plants made by Ferdinand Bauer, natural history artist on Flinders’sInvestigator voyage (1801–1803), are published for the first time. In this, and a subsequent paper, surviving drawings made at King George Sound and Lucky Bay December 1801 – January 1802 (the first Bauer made in Australia) are identified and discussed, leading to an interpretation of the highly sophisticated colour-code chart he used as a field aid.