Capturing Nature | Early scientific photography at the Australian Museum 1857-1893 garden Earrings Size: 25x15x10mm

Earrings Size: 25x15x10mm

founded in 1827

Wooden platypus earrings with sterling silver studs

in the author's Country in the Kimberley region of Western Australia

These two women whose love of nature and remarkable skill in rendering its beauty enabled them to distinguish themselves amid the male-dominated world of 19th century science

Capturing Nature | Early scientific photography at the Australian Museum 1857-1893 garden Earrings Size: 25x15x10mmIn the mid 19th century, scientists around the world were quick to see photography's huge potential for capturing fleeting moments of life, death and discovery. At the Australian Museum, curator Gerard Krefft and taxidermist Henry Barnes began to experiment with the revolutionary new art form, preparing and staging their specimens from whales and giant sunfish to lifelike lyre bird scenes and fossils and documenting them in thousands of arresting