Alexander Horace Burkitt b. 19 September 1807

Also known as A. H. Burkitt
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Received thanks for his contribution to the illustrations of Woods's 'A History of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia' (2 vols, London, 1865). for the maps and sketches
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natural history artist and scientist, came to Victoria from the Isle of Wight and worked at the Williamstown Observatory in the early 1860s. When Julian Edmund Tenison Woods published Geological Observations in South Australia (London 1862), he noted in his preface with regard to the engravings: 'The views are from photographs. The fossils, &c., are from drawings by Mr. Alexander Burkitt, of Williamstown Observatory, Melbourne… This opportunity is taken of returning very grateful thanks to that gentleman for his exertions in perfecting the illustration of the work.’ Woods’s A History of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia (2 vols, London 1865) thanked Burkitt (who by then had left his position at the observatory) for the maps and sketches and 'a terrible amount of copying’. Alexander Burkitt was presumably related to Arthur Horace Burkitt , possibly the same person if Tenison Woods mistook the first name.

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