Jane Catherine Rohu b. c.1845

Also known as Ada Jane Rohu, Jane Catherine Tost, Ada Jane Coates
  • Artist
Taxidermist, who worked with her mother Jane Tost. For over forty years (1860-1900) Jane Tost and Ada Jane Rohu were the most consistent and most successful NSW women exhibitors at international exhibitions, winning at least twenty medals between them.

Citations

  • 'NSW Birth Records: 1090/1871’.

  • 'NSW Death Records: 14993/1928’.

  • Sear, Martha (March 1996), '“Most Curious and Peculiar”: Women Taxidermists in Colonial Sydney’, Mackay Museum, University of Sydney, New South Wales, .

  • Tyrell, James R. (1952), 'Old Books, Old Friends, Old Sydney’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • Strachan, Ronald (1979), 'Rare and Curious Specimens’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • Sear, Martha (1996), 'Nineteenth Century Women’s Work Exhibitions’, PhD thesis (in progress) University of Sydney and '“Most Curious and Peculiar”: Women Taxidermists in Colonial Sydney’, Mackay Museum exhibition leaflet, Sydney, March 1996.

  • 'Australian Museum Archives’, Sydney, New South Wales: Australian Museum.

  • 'Archives of the Royal Society of Tasmania’, Hobart: Royal Society of Tasmania.

  • (1893), 'Art and Handicraft in the Women’s Building, World’s Columbian Exposition’, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

See also

  • '(Heritage biography) ADD section 5, plate 183'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions