John Mitchel b. 1815

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher, amateur photographer(?) and journalist, was an Irish political prisoner transported to Van Diemen's Land. He sketched Tasmanian views and took many daguerreotypes.

Citations

  • Mitchel, John (1868), 'My Jail Journal, or Five Years in British Prisons’.

  • Rude, G. (1967), 'John Mitchel’, in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne, Vic.

  • Brown, P. (1987), 'The Challicum Sketchbook’, Canberra, ACT.

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

  • Mitchel, J. (1988), 'The Gardens of Hell: John Mitchel in Van Diemen’s Land 1850-1853’, Kenthurst, NSW [O’Shaughnessy, P. (ed.)].

Initial data sources

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