John Green b. 1811

  • Artist (Printmaker)
Trade engraver and printer, originally from Cork, Ireland, then a resident of Melbourne. Green printed some of the earliest views of Melbourne from lithographs by G.A. Gilbert and Josephy Pittman in 1846. As a professional printer and engraver he advertised in 1840 that he could engraved plates for coffins and dog-collars in two hours.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
John Green
Birth date
c.1811
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist
  • Artist (Printmaker)
Residence
  • c.1839- c.1846 Melbourne, Vic.
  • c.1811- c.1839 Cork, Ireland
Other Occupation
  • Trade engraver
  • Printer
Arrival
  • 13 December 1839 (Melbourne, Vic. on board the Westminster)
Active Period
  • c.1843- c.1846
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

engraver and printer, came as an assisted migrant from Cork to Melbourne on board the Westminster , arriving on 13 December 1839 with his 24-year-old wife Ellen, a dressmaker. Green advertised his availability to carry out all types of engraving work in the Port Phillip Gazette on Christmas Day. On 27 May 1840, he was advising the public that he had set up premises in McKillop Street, off Little Collins Street, where he promised to engrave plates for coffins and dog-collars in two hours.

In March 1843 Green engraved brass badges for the Water Police. The following year he provided stamps and seals for the newly established post offices at Kilmore and Ovens and updated the Melbourne and Portland daily cancelling stamps for the postal department (in 1844 this work was carried out by Thomas Ham and Hugh Carruthers). Early in 1846 Green printed a series of etchings of Melbourne street scenes and its principal buildings by Henry Gilbert Jones as headings on sheets of notepaper. Together with lithographs by G.A. Gilbert and Joseph Pittman , these constitute some of the earliest views of Melbourne to be printed and published there. Green always seems to have worked as a trade engraver and no original art works are known.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Joseph Pittman
1810
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
spouse of
Ellen Green
associate of
G. A. Gilbert
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Hugh Carruthers
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
spouse of
Ola Cohn
1892
Artist (Sculptor)
parent of
Henry Green Eaton
1818
Artist (Printmaker)
parent of
Alice Green
1909
Artist (Photographer)
associate of
Thomas Ham
1821
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Printmaker)
associate of
Henry Gilbert Jones
1804
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Draughtsman)
Citations:
  • Darragh, T.A., (1990), The Establishment and Development of Engraving and Lithography in Melbourne to the Time of the Gold Rush, (Place: Willow Bend, NSW)