John Walter Osborne b. 20 February 1828

  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Photographer)
Photographer and inventor of world's first commercially viable photolithographic process, adopted by Government of Victoria in 1861. Osborne's invention proved successful in England, Germany and USA.

Citations

  • Gittens, J. (1974), 'John Walter Osborne’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 5, pp375-376, Melbourne University Press, 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.

  • Osborn, J.W. (1865), 'On a practical photolithographic process and its applications’, British Journal of Photography, vol. 12, no. 272, 07-21.

  • Willis, Anne-Marie (1988), 'Picturing Australia: A History of Photography’, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1861), Argus, 03-12.

  • (1903), Argus (obituary), 03-21.

  • (1864), Sydney Morning Herald, 11-03.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J.

  • (1863), The Times, 02-17.

  • (1860), Victorian Government Gazette, 1860-08/1861-01.

  • Victorian Patent Applications.

  • Information sourced from Cudmore, P.A.

Initial data sources

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