Mary Ann Armstrong b. 17 June 1838

Also known as Mrs. C.C. Armstrong
  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist)
Mary Ann Armstrong (1838-1910) was a botanical fern artist who participated in a number of international and intercolonial exhibitions. She compiled and artistically arranged fern specimens for a number of albums devoted to the ferns of Australasia, including a series of professional gift books entitled 'The South Pacific Fern Album'.

Citations

  • Betty Malone, granddaughter of Charles Clark and Mary Ann Armstrong, '“Mary Ann Armstrong”’, Armstrong-Newey Family Archives.

  • Betty Malone, granddaughter of Charles Clark and Mary Ann Armstrong, '“Mary Ann Armstrong”’, Armstrong-Newey Family Archives.

  • Richard Daffey, great grandson of Charles Clark and Mary Ann Armstrong, '“North Otago Newspapers Compilation”’, Armstrong-Newey Family Archives.

  • Atkinson, Louisa (12 February 1863), ''Ferns and their Haunts’, A Voice from the Country’, Sydney Morning Herald, pg 2.

  • Allen, David Elliston (1969), 'The Victorian Fern Craze: A History of Pteridomania’, Hutchinson.

  • Bonyhady, Tim (2000), 'The Colonial Earth’, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.

  • Horne, Julia (2005), 'The Pursuit of Wonder’, Miegunyah Press, Carlton, VIC.

  • Armstrong, Carol and De Zegher, Catherine, (eds.), (2004), 'Ocean Flowers: Impressions from Nature’, Princeton University Press, Princeton, USA.

  • Robin Stacey and Ashley Hay (2005), 'Herbarium’, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

  • (1886), 'Colonial and Indian exhibition: catalogue of New Zealand exhibits’, William Clowes & Sons, London, England.

  • (1905), 'The Cyclopedia of New Zealand: Otago & Southland Provincial Districts’, The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, Christchurch.

    http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc04Cycl-t1-body1-d2-d30-d6.html

  • M. Mosley (1882), 'New Zealand International Exhibition, 1882: Record’, Christchurch: James Caygill.

  • (1890), 'Official Record of the Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1888’, Melbourne: Sands & McDougall.

  • William Tate Groom (1895), '“A Select List of Books in All Departments of Literature” in With Havelock from Allahabad to Lucknow, 1857’, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.

    http://www.archive.org/stream/withhavelockfrom00groorich#page/52/mode/2up

  • Martha Sear (2000), 'Unworded Proclamations: Exhibitions of Women’s Work in Colonial’, PhD Thesis, University of Sydney.

  • (1881), 'Sydney International Exhibition: Official Record’, Sydney: Thomas Richards.

  • Butler, Roger (2007), 'Printed images in Colonial Australia 1801-1901’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

See also

  • 'Robyn Stacey and Ashley Hay, 'Herbarium', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England'.
  • 'Carol Armstrong and Catherine De Zegher, (eds.), 'Ocean Flowers: Impressions from Nature''.