- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0328
Fiveash, Rosa Catherine
(1854 – 1938)- Born 22 July, 1854, Adelaide South Australia Australia
- Died 13 February, 1938, Adelaide
- Occupation Botanical artist
Summary
While studying at the Adelaide School of Design under H P Gill, Principal, and Louis Tannert, Master of the School of Painting, Rosa Fiveash chose to specialise in painting Australian flora. She was commissioned by the conservator of forests, John Ednie Brown, to illustrate his Forest Flora of Australia and orchidologist R S Rogers to illustrate his works on South Australian orchids. The Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and the State Herbarium have a collection of her original flower paintings. It was Fiveash who introduced the art of china painting to Adelaide.
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Resource Section
- Fiveash, Rosa Catherine (1854-1938), Sims, Eric B., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080538b.htm
- Fiveash, Rosa Catherine (1854 - 1938), Biographical Entry, 2002, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P001058b.htm
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- Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html
- Trove: Fiveash, Rosa (1854-1938), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-469545
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