wood engraver, advertised in the Hobart Town Observer of 13 March 1846 that she had moved to Bakewell Cottage, New Town Van Diemen’s Land ('opposite Mr. Bramwell’s’), where she would execute wood engravings for printers, publishers and tradesmen. She said she was a pupil of 'the celebrated “Urquhart” of London’ (possibly Grigor Urquhart, a London historical painter). Her only recorded work (unlocated) is a 'clever wood engraving’ of Daniel Murphy 'the tapper’, bailiff of Hobart Town, after a drawing by George Rhubens . It was commended in the Colonial Times on 2 July 1847 and the two were advised 'to present the public with a series of our “public characters” in a similar style and manner’. Mrs Rogers, by then living in Brisbane Street, was said to have 'talents and abilities in this line…of no mean order’, but she is not known to have exercised them further in any of the Australian colonies.

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Date written:

1992

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2011