sketcher and lithographer(?), is known only for providing a sketch of Governor Sir William Denison reviewing the local troops of Volunteers from which a lithograph was published in January 1861 (unlocated). When discussing this on 29 January 1861, the Sydney Morning Herald called McVittie 'one of the unemployed’ and pointed out that although 'neither artistically finished nor critically correct in details’, his sketch was readily recognisable as an illustration of the review and should 'find many purchasers among those who appreciate that spirit which prompts to new enterprises in order to preserve by labour a manly independence’.
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
