cartoonist and sketcher, was at the Bendigo goldfields in Victoria from about 1851 to 1854 when he produced a set of 20 humorous ink drawings entitled Life on the Diggings (Dixson Library Px 54). He intended to etch these for publication as a book, but this ambition seems to have remained unfulfilled. Subjects include scenes on the voyage from England to Australia, A Bendigo Ball , High Wind on the Diggings (1854), Disinterested Storekeeper and Colonial Gin and Water (an indigenous woman in the river, f.20) Some are illustrated in There Goes the Neighbourhood , p.37 (new chums) & p.39 (Van Diemen’s Land ex-convict).

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Date written:

1992

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1989