John Watson

  • Artist (Photographer)
Professional photographer, operated photographic studios in Brisbane and Sydney. In 1874, he published 'Watson's Queensland Album of Photographic Scenery'.
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Citations

  • Davies, Alan and Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900’, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Fisher, R. (1985), 'Aspects of early photography in the Moreton Bay region’, Brisbane History Group Papers 3, Brisbane, Queensland.

  • Ritchie, R. (1989), 'Seeing the Rainforest in 19th-Century Australia’, Paddington, New South Wales.

  • (1855), Moreton Bay Courier.

  • (1986), 'Through a glass darkly: Photographers and their role in the Moreton Bay region before 1860’, Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, vol. 12, no. 3.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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Related collections
  • John Oxley Library, Queensland State Library, Brisbane, QLD (collected in)
  • John Oxley Library, Queensland State Library, Brisbane (collected in)