Julius Mendes Price b. c.1857

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Federation period London-based travelling illustrator and reporter who visited Western Australia in 1895.

illustrator and reporter. Studied art in Brussels and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Worked for the Illustrated London News who, in 1895, sent him to Western Australia to collect stories and sketches from the eastern and Murchison goldfields. These were published in the newspaper and later published in book form as The Land of Gold: the narrative of a journey through the West Australian Goldfields in the autumn of 1895 .

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007