Case 10
- Lily Daff
Lily Daff. New Zealand birds: 24 coloured illustrations of forest-inhabiting birds with descriptive letterpress. Wellington: Native Bird Protection Society, 1933.
Lily Daff (1885-1945) was an English-born artist and designer who worked in New Zealand and is known for her watercolour paintings and line drawings of native birds and plants. She emigrated to New Zealand in 1926, and from the early 1930s worked for twelve years in the display department at Otago Museum.
Daff illustrated Walter Oliver’s New Zealand birds and Perrine Moncrieff’s New Zealand birds and how to identify them (Case 15) and was commissioned by the Native Bird Protection Society (later Forest & Bird) to paint a series of illustrations of native birds. These paintings were published in books and as journal covers, and the originals are held at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
Lily Daff. New Zealand birds: 24 coloured illustrations of forest-inhabiting birds with descriptive letterpress. Wellington: Native Bird Protection Society, 1933.
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Lily Daff. New Zealand birds: twenty-four coloured illustrations of birds of coast and ocean with descriptive letterpress. Wellington: Forest & Bird Protection Society, 1940.
Lily Daff (1885-1945) was an English-born artist and designer who worked in New Zealand and is known for her watercolour paintings and line drawings of native birds and plants. She emigrated to New Zealand in 1926, and from the early 1930s worked for twelve years in the display department at Otago Museum.
Daff illustrated Walter Oliver’s New Zealand birds and Perrine Moncrieff’s New Zealand birds and how to identify them (Case 15) and was commissioned by the Native Bird Protection Society (later Forest & Bird) to paint a series of illustrations of native birds. These paintings were published in books and as journal covers, and the originals are held at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
Lily Daff. New Zealand birds: twenty-four coloured illustrations of birds of coast and ocean with descriptive letterpress. Wellington: Forest & Bird Protection Society, 1940.
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