Andrew Macredie b.

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Scottish colonial pastoralist who made fun of his unsuspecting Presbyterian neighbours with his cut paper silhouettes depicting caricatures cavorting with fantasy creatures.

Citations

  • Tipping, M. (1974), 'William Macredie’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Volume 5, Melbourne, Vic.

  • 'Macredie Papers’, La Trobe Colletction, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Westgarth, William (1848), 'Australia Felix’, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

  • von Guérard, Eugène (1982), 'An Artist on the Goldfields: The Diary of Eugène von Guérard’, South Yarra, Vic.

  • Macredie, Andrew (c.1862), 'Silhouettes of Western District Pioneers’, La Trobe collection, State Library of Victoria, (Volume 1), Melbourne, Vic.

See also

  • 'IMAGE: Andrew macredie, He presents his Book of beauty to Ye Queen Yerof, n.d., ink and gouache, 19.7 x 15.4 cm, frontispiece to his 'Silhouettes of Western District Pioneers', c.1854-62, vol. 1. La Trobe collection, State Library of Victoria'.

Initial data sources

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