Charles Bonney

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Charles Bonney sketched scenes of outback life while working on Momba station in outback New South Wales in the mid-19th century. He also took a number of photographs, most notably of the local Indigenous people.
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photographer and sketcher, took photos of Aboriginal people when working on Momba Station in outback NSW from 1865 to the 1880s. A drawing of an Aboriginal woman 'from the Darling area’ smoking a pipe and wearing a crinoline frame (cf S. T. Gill ), attributed to Charles Bonney c.1862 [sic], is reproduced in Betty Beavis (ed.), Crazy for Crinoline (self published, 1989), 53. A comprehensive history and wide selection of photographs can be found in Robert Lindsay’s 1983 publication.

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Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011

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