Elizabeth Acworth Prinsep b. 5 March 1804

Also known as Née Ommanney
  • Artist (Painter)
Elizabeth Acworth Prinsep is best known for editing her husband's letters into Journal of a Voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen's Land, published in 1833. She did a fine job and also contributed some sketches to the volume herself.

Citations

  • Prinsep, A. (1980), 'Introduction by Brown, G.’, The Journal of a Voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen’s Land: Comprising a Description of that Colony during a Six Months Residence, facsimile edn, Hobart.

  • Beattie, J. (1912), 'Historical Photographs Relating to Tasmania’, Hobart, Tas.

  • Sprod, D. (1977), 'Victorian and Edwardian Hobart from Old Photographs’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Information sourced from Callaway, Anita.

  • Information sourced from Ellis, Elizabeth.

Initial data sources

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