John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley b. c.1785

  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher, engraver (?), surveyor and explorer. Oxley's 'Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales' (London 1820) are the first published descriptions of the Australian interior, but the illustrations are mainly by his associates, Evans and Lewin.

Citations

  • Dunlop, E.W. (1967), 'John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Millar, A. (c.1986), 'I see no end to travelling: Journals of Australian Explorers 1813-76’, Kensington, NSW.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J.

  • 'John Oxley Papers’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (manuscript A5322 1).

  • Oxley, John Joseph William Molesworth (1820), 'Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales’, London, England, UK.

Initial data sources

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