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Alison Ashby with a cat and pet lamb in Wittunga farm garden [B 70984/28] • Photograph

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Summary

Alison, daughter of Edwin and Esther Ashby, in the garden of Wittunga farm. Alison lived most of her life at Wittunga. As a child Alison vowed to paint all the Australian wildflowers. She painted specimens from the surrounding bush in watercolours and on china. Her life's work of almost 1500 water colours is housed in the Adelaide Herbarium. In the background, to the right in this photograph, is the Vine Trellis enclosed by wire netting to protect from birds the 25 named varieties of table grapes.

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Physical description

Photograph (B&W print); 6 cm x 10.6 cm

Dates / Publication details

1929

Collection

Part of Ashby Family Collection

Subject

Ashby, Alison M. (Alison Marjorie), 1901-1987

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General notes

An image from a collection of photographs and slides used to illustrate talks given by Enid Robertson: an address entitled 'Wittunga Garden - From a Family Point of View' given to the Historical Society of South Australia, 1996; and a second address entitled 'The Ashby Family' given to the Coromandel Valley National Trust, 2006. The individual images can be viewed by doing a number search on B 70984; this image relates to talk on 5 July 1996 (OH 363) by Enid L. Robertson.

Digitisation information

Date

08/12/2008

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,662 x 2,193 pixels (8.0 MP)

Size

24.12 MB

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