Edward Shribbs

  • Artist (Painter)
Edward Shribbs was a theatrical scene-painter and mechanist. He arrived in Hobart Town from England in 1833. By the mid 1830s, however, he began travelling for work between Tasmania and Sydney and was the principal scene-painter at Sydney's Theatre Royal by 1836.

Citations

  • Callaway, A. (2000), 'Visual Ephemera: Theatrical Art in Nineteenth-Century Australia’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • Oppenheim, H. (1967), 'Early Australian scene painters’, Masque 1 (September-October).

  • (1837), Australian, 9 May, 10 Nov.

  • (1839), Commercial Journal and Advertiser, 8, 12 June.

  • (1838), Sydney Gazette, 29 March, 6 Oct.

  • (1836), Sydney Times, 3, 10, 19 Dec.

  • (1833), Tasmanian, 22 Nov, 27 Dec.

  • 'Colonial theatre: The rise of the legitimate stage in Australia 1824-1847’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, ms 3266.

  • Information sourced from Glover, M.

  • (1837), Sydney Times, 21 Jan, 18 March.

Initial data sources

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