Henry Tolman Dwight b. c.1823

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Henry Tolman Dwight was a professional photographer, bookseller and publisher. In 1858 he advertised in Melbourne Directory as a 'Daguerrean and Photographic artist'. Dwight exhibited at the Geelong Mechanics Institute in 1869. He died at his bookshop in 1871.

Citations

  • (1853), 'Melbourne Directory’.

  • McLaren, I.F. (1972), 'Henry Tolman Dwight, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 4, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward’, Melbourne.

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

  • 'Old Melbourne, newscuttings’, Sydney: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

  • Information sourced from Callaway, A.

  • Information sourced from Forde, J. M.

  • Information sourced from Thomson, J.

Initial data sources

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