William Kellett Baker b. c.1806

Also known as I. W. R.
  • Artist (Printmaker)
A trained engraver, William Kellett Baker sold lithographic - often unauthorised prints of works by well known colonial artists including William Henry Fernyhough. As a publisher and printer who also imported and sold books, Baker established a reading room and library above his printing office in 1844, offering access to his collection of international periodicals for the annual sum of 10 shillin
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Citations

  • Howitt, W. (1855), 'Land, Labour and Gold’, Kilmore, London (reprint 1972).

  • Melthorpe, F. (1878), 'Other days: Sydney litterateurs in '48’', Sydney University Magazine, Sydney, October.

  • Waddell, J., 'St Peter’s Old Burial Ground East Maitland’, Maitland, NSW (n.d.).

  • (1847), 'Heads of the People’, Sydney.

Initial data sources

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

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Related collections
  • Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)