Ethel Anna King (1879 – 1 January 1939) was an Australian scientific illustrator of snakes, fish and botany.
Born in Lismore in 1879, King moved to Sydney to study painting and drawing with Julian Ashton and Dattilo Rubbo.
[6] She contributed illustrations to the first edition of the Australian Encyclopedia[4] and made 137 colour illustrations for J. R. Kinghorn's Snakes of Australia, which were described by David G. Stead, President of the Naturalists' Society of New South Wales as "render[ing] the work quite unique and absolutely invaluable to naturalist and bushman alike, as with their aid it is easily possible to identify every species".
[7] A colour plate she created for Charles Barrett's Australian Animals (1932) was described as "one of the finest illustrations of its kind yet published in this country" by The Melbourne Herald.
[1] King died on 1 January 1939 at a private hospital in Darlinghurst, New South Wales[9] and was cremated.