Samuel Jackson b. 1807

  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Colonial era sketcher, architect, builder and pastoralist, he established Melbourne's first private architectural practice, and in 1841 drew an enormous 'PANORAMIC Sketch of MELBOURNE Port Phillip...' that the Victorian government later commissioned a scene-painter to adorn the Melbourne Exhibition Building with.
creator of
PANORAMIC Sketch of MELBOURNE Port Phillip from the walls of Scots Church on the Eastern hill
Date

(5.48 m x 45.7 cm), pencil view was with the aid of a solar camera (camera lucida).