Julius Hamel b. c.1822

  • Artist (Printmaker)
Lithographic artist, engraver and draughtsman, very little original work by Hamel is recorded apart from his many illuminated addresses. Hamel, as Hamel & Ferguson, illuminated some fine addresses presented to Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh on his Australian tour in 1867-68.

Citations

  • Hawkins, John (November 1999), 'Illuminated Addresses Presented to Prince Alfred’, Australiana, (96-97), .

  • McCulloch, A. (1977), 'Artists of the Australian Gold Rush’, Melbourne, Vic.: Lansdowne.

  • Darragh, T., 'Directory of nineteenth century lithographers and engravers working in Victoria’, manuscript.

  • Woodhouse, H. (1889), 'The Victorian pioneers of litho-drawing and engraving’, La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic., typescript.

  • (25 November 1867), Argus, page 6.

Initial data sources

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