Jane Tost b. c.1817

Also known as Ada Jane Rohu
  • Artist
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.
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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, .

See also

  • 'Section 5, plate 183'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions

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Related stub people
  • Audubon, John (associate of)
  • Ward, Herbert (child of)
  • Ward, Henry (sibling of)
  • Ward, Rowland (relative of)
  • Tost, Charles (spouse of)
  • Tyrell, James (associate of)
  • Coates, James (relative of)
  • Rohu, Henry (relative of)
  • Rohu, Willis (grandparent of)
Related stub person groups
  • Tost & Rohu (associate of)
  • British Museum, England, UK (associate of)
  • Hobart Town Museum, TAS (associate of)
  • Royal Society of Tasmania, TAS (associate of)
  • Australian Museum, NSW (associate of)
  • Victoria Theatre, Pitt St, Sydney, NSW. (associate of)
  • Agricultural Society of NSW, NSW (associate of)
Related people
  • Rohu, Jane Catherine (parent of)
  • Krefft, Johann Ludwig Gerard (associate of)
Related works
  • 'Perfumery and Fancy Articles' (creator of)
  • 'Stuffed Birds' (creator of)
Related recognitions
  • Award in group 164 (received)
  • NSW woman exhibitors, International exhibitions (received)
Related events
  • Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition, Agricultural Society of NSW (exhibited at)
  • Untitled Event (exhibited at)
  • Untitled Event (exhibited at)
  • Untitled Event (exhibited at)
  • DBRef(u'xactivity', ObjectId('4da1a95bb538b73d9301b18b')) (exhibited at)
  • Untitled Event (exhibited at)
  • Untitled Event (exhibited at)