Melbourne Juni1 11. 1858
Sir
The cost of one plate, containing Plants for a scientific work, is ten pounds Strlg2 and eight pounds with less shading; herein is included:
1) The original drawing of the Specimen,3
2) The Analysis of each plant,
3) The transfering one stone and
4) Superintending the printing etc:
I have the honor to be
Sir
your most obedient
Ludwig Becker.4
Dr F. Mueller.
German for June.
Sterling.
Annotation by M at bottom of printed drawing: 'Tender of L Becker Esq £10. with less shading £8'.
See M to J. O'Shanassy, 21 August 1858 (In this edition is 58-08-21a).
Letter attached to a printed copy of a drawing of Marianthus bignoniaceus F.M. drawn by Ludwig Becker and printed by Hamel & Locher. The drawing is an earlier version, printed in reverse, more heavily shaded and with some differences in the presentation, of the lithograph published as Plate 10 in B62.03.03; the latter is, however, stated to have been lithographed by F. Schoenfeld, not Becker, from a drawing by Becker, and the pinter's name is given as Hamel & Co.
Please cite as “FVM-58-06-11,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on