Silvester Diggles b. 24 January 1817

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Regardless of whether he was painting a seashore scene on a mutton shoulder-blade, or showing his special skill in life-like and accurate natural history illustrations, Diggles' outstanding artistic achievement was the completion of 325 pencil and watercolour plates illustrating 600 birds for the impressive tome, 'Ornithology of Australia.'
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creator of
Crossing Place, Coal Falls near Ipswich
 
creator of
Companion to Gould's Handbook; or, Synopsis of the Birds of Australia (book)
Date

self-published

 
creator of
Ornithology of Australia (book)
Date

325 pencil and watercolour plates illustrating 600 birds.

 

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References [<ExternalResource: (June 1965), 'Notes on Diggles' "Ornithology of Australia"', Queensland Naturalist, .>, <ExternalResource: (July 1963), 'Silvester Diggles - a Queensland naturalist one hundred years ago', Queensland Naturalist 17, .>, <ExternalResource: Marks, E. (1972), 'Silvester Diggles', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 4, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, Melbourne, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: Burmester, C.A. (1974), 'National Library of Australia: Guide to the Collections', Canberra.>, <ExternalResource: Fisher, R. (12 March 1986), '"Through a glass darkly": Photographers and their role in the Moreton Bay region before 1860', Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland.>, <ExternalResource: Diggles, S., 'Letter Book 1871/1877', National Library of Australia ms 1551.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Davies, Alan.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Fisher, Rod.>] [<ExternalResource: (June 1965), 'Notes on Diggles' "Ornithology of Australia"', Queensland Naturalist, .>, <ExternalResource: (July 1963), 'Silvester Diggles - a Queensland naturalist one hundred years ago', Queensland Naturalist 17, .>]