George William Perry b. 1824

  • Artist (Photographer)
Professional photographer, exhibited and well-recognised. Achievements include 'Perry-o-type' process, 1864; and telescopic photographs of 'the largest primary pictures of the moon', 1872.
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Citations

  • (1872), 'Victorian Exhibition of 1872 and London International Exhibition of 1873’, Catalogue, Melbourne, VIC, advertisement.

  • (1867), 'Sands & McDougall’s Melbourne Directory’.

  • (1856), 'The Melbourne Commercial Squatters Directory’.

  • Gascoigne, S.C.B. (c.1976), 'Robert Lewis John Ellery’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 4, Melbourne University Press, VIC.

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

  • Cato, J. (1955), 'The Story of the Camera in Australia’, Melbourne, VIC.

  • Johnson, W.S. (1990), 'Nineteenth-Century Photography: An Annotated Bibliography 1839-1879’, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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

  • (1856), Age, 04-04.

  • (1858), Illustrated Melbourne News, 01-09.

  • (1856), My Note Book.

  • (1872), Sydney Mail, 05-18.

  • (1857), Weekly Almanac and Remembrancer of Commercial and General Events, no. 44, May.

  • Patents, Specifications and Drawings, vol. 16, no. 724, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.

  • Information sourced from Fox, P.

  • (1858), Argus, 03-04.

  • (1857), Argus, 08-29.

  • (1867), Argus (supplement) 11-27.

  • Information sourced from Bruce, Candice.

  • Information sourced from Callaway, Anita.

  • Information sourced from Cudmore, Peter A.

  • Information sourced from Johnson, Fay.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.

  • Information sourced from Newton, Gael.

  • Information sourced from Thomson, Joyce A.

Initial data sources

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