Fiveash, Rosa Catherine (1854 - 1938)

While studing 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.

Books

• Brown, John Ednie, The Forest Flora of South Australia, Government Printer, Adelaide, 1882. [ Details... ]
• Fiveash, Rosa, Australian Orchids: A Collection of Paintings, Rigby, Adelaide, 1974. [ Details... ]

Journals

• Field Naturalists Society of South Australia (ed.), The South Australian Naturalist, 1919-. [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

• Steele Scott, Chris, 'Rosa Fiveash (1854-1938)', Australian Garden History, vol. 7, no. 6, 1996, p. 12. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

• 'Fiveash, Rosa Catherine (1854 - 1938), Biographical Entry', in Bright Sparcs, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2002, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P001058b.htm. [ Details... ]

See also

• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au. [ Details... ]
• Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 'Where are the Women in Australian science?', 22 August 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html. [ Details... ]
• Radi, Heather (ed.), 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press, Sydney, 1988, 258 pp. (Also available at http://www.200australianwomen.com/) [ Details... ]
• Rogers, R.S., An Introduction to the Study of South Australian Orchids, South Australian Education Department, Adelaide, 1911. [ Details... ]