sketcher, cartoonist and school-teacher, worked in Hobart in the 1880s. On 23 February 1884, the Mercury reported:
One exhibit in Mr A.P. Miller’s window, Murray-street, yesterday attracted the notice of many passers-by. It consisted of two pencil sketches, a little larger than cabinet size, the work, we understand, of Mr Birchell, drawing master at the High School. The first is a portrait of Professor Erdmann, of the Hobart Gymnasium, and an admirable likeness; the other is a clever cartoon, representing the professors among the weights and dumb-bells, and holding aloft in his right-hand the most weighty personage to be found in the colonies [Jennings], who need not here be more particularly described. As may be imagined, the muscle developed by the professor is as extraordinary in its proportions as the effort itself.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
