Frederick Polydore Nodder

{{short description|English flora and fauna illustrator (1770–1801)}}

{{for|Frederick Nodder, executed in 1937|Murder conviction without a body}}

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Image:Bruguiera gymnorrhiza00.jpg by Frederick Polydore Nodder]]

File:Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). First Description 1799.jpg, 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,{{Cite book|last1=Shaw|first1=George|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/79941|title=The Naturalist's Miscellany|last2=Nodder|first2=Frederick Polydore|last3=Nodder|first3=Elizabeth|last4=Nodder|first4=Richard Polydore|last5=McMillan|first5=Buchanan|last6=Leach|first6=William Elford|date=1789–1813|publisher=Nodder & Co.|location=London|doi=10.5962/bhl.title.79941}} and Thomas Martyn's Flora Rustica.{{Cite journal |last1=Dickinson |first1=Edward C. |last2=Bruce |first2=Murray |last3=Dowsett |first3=Robert |date=October 2006 |title=Vivarium naturae or the naturalist's miscellany (1789–1813) by George Shaw: an assessment of the dating of the parts and volumes |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268077084 |journal=Archives of Natural History |publisher=The Society for the History of Natural History |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=322–343 |doi=10.3366/anh.2006.33.2.322 |via=ResearchGate}} He also helped Joseph Banks prepare the Banks' Florilegium and converted most of Sydney Parkinson's Australian plant drawings from the {{HMS|Endeavour||2}} expedition into paintings and helped engrave them for publication. He illustrated the first published scientific description of the duck-billed platypus.{{Cite journal|last1=Shaw|first1=George|last2=Nodder|first2=Frederick Polydore|date=1799|title=The Duck-Billed Platypus, Platypus anatinus.|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/304567|journal=The Naturalist's Miscellany|volume=10|issue=CXVIII|pages=385–386|doi=10.5962/p.304567}} There are Nodder drawings and paintings of Australian birds and butterflies in the Natural History Division of the National Museum of Ireland.{{Cite web|url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/nodder-frederick.html|title=Nodder, Frederick Polydore|website=www.anbg.gov.au|access-date=2020-02-02}}{{full short|date=April 2019}}

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.