The Scott Sisters
The Scott Sisters
With their collecting boxes, notebooks and paintbrushes, Harriet and Helena Scott became two of 19th-century Australia’s most prominent natural history illustrators.
WE Uncover the captivating story of these two extraordinary women
They were meticulous and understood the biology of their subjects in great detail
The Scott Sisters of Ash Island is a story about Art, Science, Family, Survival, Loss and Conservation. It’s a story of two teenage sisters ignoring obstacles and turning the science world on its head at a time when women couldn’t study science. It is also a story of work so accurate and ground-breaking it is still used 170yrs later. This is an international story and the best parts of it happened in Newcastle. Novocastrian’s need to know it and be proud of it.
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