Samuel Jackson b. 1807

  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Colonial era sketcher, architect, builder and pastoralist, he established Melbourne's first private architectural practice, and in 1841 drew an enormous 'PANORAMIC Sketch of MELBOURNE Port Phillip...' that the Victorian government later commissioned a scene-painter to adorn the Melbourne Exhibition Building with.
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References [<ExternalResource: Jackson, P. (1967), 'Samuel Jackson', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 2, Pike, Douglas (ed.), Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: (1981), 'The Heritage of Australia', Australian Heritage Commission, South Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: (c.1984), 'Historical Records of Victoria', Foundation Series, vol. 3, Cannon, M. (ed.).>, <ExternalResource: Colligan, M. (1987), 'Canvas and wax: Images of information in Australian panoramas and waxworks', Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Tibbits, G., et al., 'Directory of Victorian architects', University of Melbourne manuscript, Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: (1984), 'The Early Development of Melbourne 1836-1839', Melbourne, Vic.; Cannon, M. (ed.).>]