engraver, lithographer and forger, was listed in Melbourne directories as an engraver, lithographer and occasional printer at various Melbourne addresses between 1860 and 1869. He showed specimens of his engraving and lithography at the 1861 Victorian Exhibition, giving his address as 50 Little Bourke Street East. By May 1870 he had left for England by the Swiftsure , according to the police, who had a warrant out for his arrest for uttering forged bills of exchange at Melbourne on 19 February. He was described as 'a lithographer and engraver aged 44, 5’ 5” [165 cm], sallow complexion, black hair and whiskers, Jewish cast of features, and north of England accent, native of Newcastle, England. Generally wears black clothing and black dress hat’.
Apart from his 1861 exhibits, which presumably would have had some artistic pretensions, these bills of exchange were possibly Tennant’s most original art works, his normal trade apparently consisting largely of jobbing work.
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- 1992
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