Alfred Abbott b. 1838

  • Artist (Photographer)
Amateur photographer, watchmaker and diarist. Known for his stereoscopic prints of Hobart and its surrounds. He also produced an important album incorporating works by Tasmanian and Victorian photographers of the 1850s and 1860s.

Citations

  • Rimmer, G (1966), 'Francis Abbott’, Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 3, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Sprod, D. (1977), 'Victorian and Edwardian Hobart from Old Photographs’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Davies, Alan / Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900’, Melbourne, Vic.

Initial data sources

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