Edward Clarke b.

  • Artist (Photographer)
An amateur photographer and medical practitioner. A resident of Launceston. He introduced the wet-plate process to Tasmania.

Citations

  • Button, H. (1909), 'Flotsam and Jetsam’, Launceston, Tas : no date.

  • Long, C., 'Tasmania – the first photographs’, Manuscript.

  • Button, H., 'Memories of Fifty Years’, Launceston, Tas : no date.

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

Initial data sources

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