A. B.

Also known as Alfred Scott Broad (possible attribution)
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Colonial-era Melbourne cartoonist who contributed to Melbourne Punch in the late 1880s. There is some speculation that A.B. is Alfred Scott Broad.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1996
Name
A. B.
Also known as Alfred Scott Broad (possible attribution)
Gender
Unknown
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Residence
  • c.1886 Victoria
Active Period
  • c.1886
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

cartoonist, contributed to Melbourne Punch signing work 'AB’, e.g. Better Than Nothing . 'The Yan Yean is very bad, and Jones cannot afford a regular filter. However, the use of a sieve gets rid of the chief impurities’ 1 April 1886 (ill. Fabian, 101). There is some speculation that A.B. might be the artist Alfred Scott Broad .

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Alfred Scott Broad
1854
Artist (Industrial / Product Designer), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter)
Citations:
  • Fabian, Suzanne (ed.), (1982), Mr. Punch down under : a social history of the colony from 1856 to 1900 via cartoons and extracts from Melbourne punch, (Place: Richmond, Vic : Greenhouse Publications, p 101)