Mary Murray-Prior b. February 1845

Also known as Mary Bundock
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Murray-Prior spent most of her childhood on the family property, Wyangarie, on the Richmond River. She was friendly with the local Aboriginal population and took a keen interest in the native flora and collecting artefacts. She bequeathed her collections to museums in both Australia and Europe.
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Citations

  • Kerr, Joan (ed.) (1992), 'The Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • McBryde, Isabel (1978), 'Records of Times Past: Ethnohistorical Essays on the Culture and Ecology of the New England Tribes’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Bundock, Mary (Mrs Murray-Prior), 'Memoirs of Early Days on the Richmond River’, Typescript copy, original manuscript, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.

Initial data sources

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

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