Charles Wilkinson

Also known as Charles F. Wilkinson
  • Artist (Photographer)
Colonial geologist whose pioneer use of photography to illustrate Victorian rocks may have inspired his son to become a geologist too.

Citations

  • Newton, G. (1988), 'Shades of Light’, Canberra, ACT.

  • (5 September 1891), Town and Country Journal.

  • Daintree, Richard and Wilkinson, Charles (c.1859), 'Photographs: Illustrative of Victorian Geology taken by Mr, Late Field Geologist and Mr Charles Wilkinson, Field Geologist’, Victorian Public Land Office, (printed by Wilkinson, C. and Noone, J.).

Initial data sources

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