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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2013-02-14 human Christine Moje updated 2024-10-03 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005330b.htm person Todt Emil Hermann AACR2 c. 1810 10 July 1900 Place of Birth Berlin, Germany Place of Death Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Botanical artist Emil Todt was a sculptor and botanical artist, active in Australia between the 1850s to the 1880s.He produced over seventy lithographed illustrations for Ferdinand von Mueller's Eucalyptographia: a descriptive atlas of the Eucalypts of Australia and the adjoining islands (1879-1884).

Todt emigrated from Germany to Australia in 1849. He settled in Melbourne in 1854, where he continued his work as a sculptor. His most famous work, The gold diggers (1854), now at the National Gallery of Victoria, attracted a number of commissions and Emil Todt was soon considered a leading artist. In 1882, von Mueller named Eucalyptus todtiana in honour of Todt.

1830 1836 Education - Studied sculpture under Ludwig Wichmann in Berlin 1849 1849 Life event - Emigrated to South Australia 1854 1854 Life event - Settled in Melbourne, Victoria 1854 1854 Career event - Exhibition of The gold diggers 1882 1882 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus todtiana F.Muell. was named in his honour 1882 1884 Career event - Illustrated Ferdinand von Mueller's Eucalyptographia...(1879-1884) Mueller, Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von (1825 - 1896)

Todt illustrated Mueller's Eucalyptographia

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 Todt, Emil Hermann (1810-19000710)

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 'Todt, Emil Hermann', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Todt, Emil Hermann Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: The gold diggers (1854) Todt, Emil The gold diggers (1854) National Gallery of Victoria Collection Online - Artworks. National Gallery of Victoria

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 Book: Eucalyptographia : a descriptive atlas of the eucalypts of Australia and the adjoining islands. Decades I - X [10 volumes] Mueller, Ferdinand, Baron von Eucalyptographia : a descriptive atlas of the eucalypts of Australia and the adjoining islands. Decades I - X [10 volumes] Melbourne John Ferres, Government Printer 1879-1884