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There are 150 works exhibited within the show, which offer an illuminating perspective on how women navigated their way along a narrow line of being professional or amateur in an art world which frowned upon women being too commercial, and restricted access to their training. With an entire room in the exhibition dedicated to botanical and floral pieces, Barber said they didn\u2019t want to shy away from the fact that painting flowers, particularly in watercolour, was one of the more acceptable genres of art for women to pursue.<\/p>
Augusta Innes Withers, Compton\u2019s Sheba\u2019s Queen [Gooseberries], 1825. \u00a9 Courtesy the Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
$\"Augusta$
Augusta Innes Withers, Gooseberry Compton\u2019s Sheba\u2019s Queen, 1825. \u00a9 Courtesy the Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library – \u00a9 Courtesy the Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
$\"Diana$
Diana Hill, Flowers in a vase which stands on a ledge, 1773. Photograph \u00a9 The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
$\"Martha$
Martha Darley Mutrie, Wild Flowers at the Corner of a Cornfield, 1855-60. \u00a9 Tate (Seraphina Neville)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
$\"Helen$
Helen Cordelia Angell, Hedge-Sparrow\u2019s Nest and Hawthorn \u00a9 National Museums Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery. Bequeathed by Reverend E. C. Dewick 1958<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
$\"Rosa$
Rosa Brett Thistles (1860)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
$\"Mary$
Mary Delany, Rubus Odoratus, 1772-82<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
$\"Mary$
Mary Delany, Crinum Asiaticum, 1780.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
$\"Clara$
Clara Maria Pope, Peony, 1822. Courtesy the Natural History Museum. \u00a9 The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London – \u00a9 The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
$\"Clara$
Clara Maria Pope, Peony, 1821. Courtesy the Natural History Museum. \u00a9 The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London – \u00a9 The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
$\"Mary$
Mary Moser, Flowers in a vase, which stands on a ledge. \u00a9 The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>