George Gordon McCrae b. 29 May 1833

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Primarily a poet, McCrae kept a diary and sketched; his work was influenced by the Indigenous population at Arthur's Seat on the Mornington Peninsula. His best known work is long poem in blank verse, The Man in the Iron Mask, published in 1873.
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Victorian Society of Fine Arts Exhibition
Date
December 1857
Place
Melbourne, Victoria
Description
Type
Exhibition

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References [<ExternalResource: Cowper, N. (1974), 'George Gordon McCrae', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5, Pike, D. ed., Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: (1988), 'Australia Felix... A Pantomime by Garnet Walch', Kelly, V., ed., St Lucia, Queensland.>, <ExternalResource: McCrae, H. (1935), 'My Father and My Father's Friends', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: McCrae, G.G. (1987), 'Recollections of Melbourne & Port Phillip Bay in the early forties', Adelaide, SA.>, <ExternalResource: Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art', 2 volumes, (facsimile reprint, 1980), Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: 'McCrae Papers', La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: (1966), 'Georgiana's Journal - Melbourne 1841-1865', McCrae, H., ed., Sydney, NSW.>]