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Lady painters: the flower painters of early New
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487:"No. 50766"
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261:Recognition
228:Bill Sutton
194:Ngaio Marsh
87:28 May 1988
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920:Categories
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768:Edith Wall
673:Doris Lusk
558:Rita Angus
471:3 February
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334:7 February
304:References
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