{"title":"Daff, Lily","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLily Attey Daff (1885-1945)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a British-born designer and artist who worked in New Zealand and published watercolour paintings and line drawings of many native New Zealand birds and flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLily Daff was born in Upton, London, on 16 March 1885. She took courses in drawing and painting at the London Polytechnic but was also known to have completed at least one course at King Edward Technical College in Dunedin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter her polytechnic training, Daff worked as an illustrator for Christmas card producer Raphael Tuck \u0026amp; Sons.  Having left London on the Esperance Bay, Daff arrived in Wellington in 1926 and obtained work with the Government Publicity Department.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn June 1932, Daff, who had served on the staff of the Otago Museum for a year, left Dunedin for Wellington to fulfill a commission for the New Zealand Bird Protection Society to paint a series of pictures of New Zealand native birds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1933 she was offered and accepted a position on the Otago Museum staff, \"and began what she later described as the happiest period of her life\". She took on the role of Officer in Charge of Exhibitions at Otago Museum, painting dioramas, reorganising and decorating the galleries, designing displays, posters, and producing guidebooks. Daff served on staff at the museum for 12 years in total. Her obituary claims her chief contribution to scientific education was in the travelling cases which circulated throughout the museums of New Zealand, however now she is mostly known for her illustrations of New Zealand birds. Daff's line illustrations were considered by the Otago Daily Times to turn the newly published guide Introducing the Otago Museum into a \"minor collector's item\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDaff illustrated Walter Oliver's book New Zealand Birds and Pérrine Moncrieff's New Zealand Birds and How to Identify Them. Her copies of drawings by J W Barnicoat are in the Hocken Collections, as are a painting of a takahe and other unfinished natural history studies. Daff also supplied hundreds of line drawings to illustrate research publications on ethnography, many of which can be seen online in the Journal of the Polynesian Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDaff died in New Zealand on 3 May 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"new-zealand-birds-1925-lily-daff-1885-1945-18-images","title":"New Zealand Birds 1925 - Lily Daff (1885-1945) - 18 images","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis small handbook is fully entitled New Zealand Birds and How to Identify Them. It was written by Perrine Moncrieff, the grand-daughter of Pre-Raphaelite artist, Sir John Everett Millais.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download features 18 hi-res images, in jpeg format, that are all 600dpi and range in size from 2330 pixels wide\/tall to 3829 pixels wide\/tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/daff-lily\" title=\"Lily Daff\"\u003eLily Daff\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 18 images","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50958473822538,"sku":null,"price":2.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Daff_Lily_1885-1945_-NewZealandBirds1925_main.jpg?v=1751629753"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/collections\/Daff_Lily_1885-1945-602699.jpg?v=1748631433","url":"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/daff-lily.oembed","provider":"Public Domain Image Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}