Patrick Dawson

  • Artist (Photographer)
Melbourne based colonial surveyor who produced photographic portraits of the Indigenous Australian cricket team before they toured England in 1867. Some were in their cricket whites, but most were posed with weapons such as boomerangs.
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Citations

  • Pullman, J. and Thornton, K. (1990), 'A Century of Colonial Cricketana, The Australian Antique Collector, July-December’.

  • Mulvaney , J. and Harcourt, R. (1988), 'Cricket Walkabout’, Sydney, New South Wales, Entry mostly determined by Cricket Walkabout.

See also

  • 'ADD, p. 200, Patrick Dawson, The members of the Australian Cricket Team about to Tour England October 1867, composite photograph in ambrotype case. Melbourne Cricket Club.'.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions

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Other occupations
  • Surveyor
  • Professional photographer (ANZSIC code: 6991)
  • Surveyor
  • Professional photographer