Edward Charles Moore

Also known as E. C. Moore
  • Artist (Painter) , (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Colonial era Ballarat cartoonist, sketcher, actor and businessman
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
Edward Charles Moore
Also known as E. C. Moore
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Residence
  • Ballarat, Vic
Other Occupation
  • Businessman
  • Actor
Active Period
  • c.1857- c.1858
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • DAA with additions

cartoonist, sketcher, actor and businessman, was one of the founders of the first series of Ballarat Punch in 1857, together with C.A. Abbott . Herbert Woodhouse called him a gifted amateur actor and 'a smart humorous artist’ and said he drew the outside cover for the first issue of the magazine. Unfortunately, it never appeared 'for want of the necessary wood or stone gravers’, Withers recollected. The magazine was printed by F.W. Niven on one of Alfred Ronalds 's old hand-presses and did not survive much beyond November and issue no.5 (the only one known). Ten years later, when the second, far more successful Ballarat Punch began Moore was not among the illustrators.

Moore was also secretary of the Ballarat Turf Club.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
1989
associate of
C. A. Abbott
Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Herbert James Woodhouse
1858
Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Francis Wilson Niven
1831
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Alfred Ronalds
1802
Artist (Printmaker)
associate of
William Macleod
1850
Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Painter), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
William Phillips
1803
Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
James Wilson
1804
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Ballarat Turf Club
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Ballarat Punch (founder)
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
5 drawings including Yankee Digger (NLA) (mildly comic but perhaps not intentionally)
Date
1858
watercolour 18.5 x 27 cm
Collections
Citations:
  • (May 2002), National Library of Australia News, (Place: National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT, p7)
  • Ballarat Punch, (Place: Ballarat, Vic)
  • Woodhouse, H., (1889), The Victorian pioneers of litho-drawing and engraving, (Place: (typescript), La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic)
  • Withers, W.B., (1887), The History of Ballarat, (Place: Ballarat, Vic (revised edition), (facsimile reprint, 1980))
  • Stuart, L., (1974), Nineteenth Century Periodicals, (Place: Melbourne, Vic)
  • Mahood, Marguerite, (1973), The loaded line, Australian political caricature, 1788-1901, (Place: Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic)
  • Dictionary of Australian Artists