Edwin Augustus Porcher

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Edwin Augustus Porcher was a sketcher and naval officer. He was scientific observer and unofficial artist aboard the Royal Navy's corvette Fly which, with the schooner Bramble, carried out the first hydrographic survey of the north-eastern Australian coast in 1842-45.

Citations

  • Moyal, A. (1986), 'A bright and savage land, Scientists in Colonial Australia’, Sydney, NSW.

  • O’Byrne, W. (1849), 'A Naval Biographical Dictionary’, London, England, UK.

  • Savours, A. & McConnell, A. (1982), 'The history of the Rossbank Observatory, Tasmania’, Annals of Science, Volume 39.

Initial data sources

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