Jane Tost b. c.1817

Also known as Ada Jane Rohu
  • Artist ,
  • Maker
Taxidermist in partnership with her daughter Ada Jane Rohu. 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

  • Sear, Martha (March 1996), '“Most Curious and Peculiar”: Women Taxidermists in Colonial Sydney’, Sydney, NSW : Mackay Museum exhibition leaflet, .

  • Sear, Martha (March 1996), 'Nineteenth Century Women’s Work Exhibitions’, Sydney, NSW : PhD thesis (in progress) Sydney University, .

  • Marion Theobald (1 January 1996), '“The Queerest Shop in Sydney.”’.

  • Tyrell, James R. (1952), 'Old Books, Old Friends, Old Sydney’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Strachan, Ronald (1979), 'Rare and Curious Specimens’, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Australian Museum Archives’, Sydney, NSW.

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

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

  • 'New South Wales Death Records : 706/1889’, New South Wales.

See also

  • 'Section 5, plate 183'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions