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Collection of Australian wildflower postcards / Alison Ashby
Bib ID 6338074
Format PicturePicture [still image, sheet]
Author
Ashby, Alison M. (Alison Marjorie), 1901- artist
 
Printer South Australia Government Printer 1982
Description 8 prints (postcards) : colour ; 14.8 x 10.5 cm 
Summary

Collection of eight postcards in the Alison Ashby, South Australian Museum series.

Biography/History

Alison Marjorie Ashby,1901-1987, botanical artist and plant collector lodged her completed watercolours with the South Australian Museum and in 1958 nine paintings were reproduced as postcards, the beginning of a series that eventually included 240 of her 1500 paintings.

Notes

Title devised by cataloguer from information on reverse of items.

Inscriptions: "Australian Wildflowers, South Australian Museum Series, Government Printer, South Australia"--Printed on reverse.

Subjects Postcards -- Australia -- Pictorial works.  |  Wild flowers -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
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