Charles Dirck Wittenoom b.

Also known as Esq. C. D. Wittenoom
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher and newspaperman from England, brother of John Burdett Wittenoom, the first clergyman appointed to Western Australia. He produced sketches of WA, representing the countryside before convict labour altered the landscape. The drawings were turned into engravings for Nathaniel Ogle's influential book, 'The Colony of Western Australia: A Manual for Emigrants 1839'.

Citations

  • Cranfield, R.E. (c.1963), 'The Wittenoom Family in Western Australia’, Perth, Western Australia.

  • Ogle, Nathaniel (1839), 'The Colony of Western Australia’, London, England.

  • Chapman, Barbara (1979), 'The Colonial Eye’, Art Gallery of Western Australia: Perth, WA.

  • Erickson, R. (1988), 'The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre 1829 1888’, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia.

  • Wrey, Mark (ed.) (1988), 'Christie’s Review of the Season 1988’, Phaidon, Christie’s Oxford, London, England, pp. 78-79.

  • (1988), Melbourne, Vic: Christie’s auction catalogue, 05-03.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions