Quality Greetings Cards

 

Born in 1848, Australian Flora artist, Marian Ellis Rowan, travelled extensively, painting the birds and wildlife of Northern Australia, Thursday Island and New Guinea. It was in the 1870's that Wedgwood produced the Australian Flora on creamware dinner services from which these illustrations have been taken.

 

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…As Josiah Wedgwood I wrote in a letter to Thomas Bentley in May 1762, "...My much esteemed friend, if you will give me leave to call you so and will not think the address too free..." With the advent of this new and exciting organisation, just like Thomas Bentley three centuries ago, you too now have the opportunity to become a 'much esteemed friend'. Click on the 'be a friend' box above…