Frederick Polydore Nodder

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title: "Frederick Polydore Nodder" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["english-botanical-illustrators", "british-bird-artists", "english-animal-artists", "english-publishers-(people)"] description: "English flora and fauna illustrator (1770–1801)" topic_path: "geography/united-kingdom" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Polydore_Nodder" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary English flora and fauna illustrator (1770–1801) ::

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::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Platypus_(Ornithorhynchus_anatinus)._First_Description_1799.jpg" caption="First published illustration of a [[platypus]], by Frederick Nodder in 1799"] ::

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.

Footnotes

References

1. (1789–1813). "The Naturalist's Miscellany". Nodder & Co..
2. (October 2006). "''Vivarium naturae'' or the naturalist's miscellany (1789–1813) by George Shaw: an assessment of the dating of the parts and volumes". The Society for the History of Natural History.
3. (1799). "The Duck-Billed Platypus, Platypus anatinus.". The Naturalist's Miscellany.
4. "Nodder, Frederick Polydore".

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