J. Eden Saville

Also known as Cerberus (Possible attribution.)
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Colonial period Port Adelaide newspaper cartoonist, there is some speculation that Saville contributed cartoons under the signatory 'Cerberus'.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1996
Name
J. Eden Saville
Also known as Cerberus (Possible attribution.)
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Residence
  • c.1871- c.1879 Port Adelaide, SA
Active Period
  • c.1871- c.1879
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

cartoonist, was the principal contributor to the South Australian Portonian (1871-79), along with A. S. Broad (who signed 'ASB’), according to Moore. A prolific signatory in the cartoons of this weekly Port Adelaide newspaper was ' Cerberus ' (see scrapbook ML) and there is some speculation that this was Saville.

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Cerberus
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
A. S. Broad
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Alfred Scott Broad
1854
Artist (Industrial / Product Designer), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter)
Citations:
  • Moore, William, (1934), Story of Australian Art vol. ii, (Place: Sydney, NSW : Angus & Robertson (facsimile 1980), p 121)