E. S. P.

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
This artist's sketch of Major Lee's house is very similar to that of F.C. Terry's, yet each artist claims a different location for the house, the former in Manly and the latter, Vaucluse.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
E. S. P.
Gender
Unknown
Roles
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Active Period
  • c.1848
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

sketcher, signed a watercolour sketch inscribed 'The only house in Manly in 1848 – An old fisherman, a Gypsy, named Major Lee used to live there’ (Dixson Library). This view is very similar to F.C. Terry 's sketch of Major Lee’s hut, which was not at Manly but Vaucluse, on the opposite side of Sydney Harbour.

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Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
'The only house in Manly in 1848 - An old fisherman, a Gypsy, named Major Lee used to live there'
Date
1848
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