Thomas Scott b. 1800

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher and surveyor. Scott made numerous surveying expeditions throughout Tasmania, laid out the town of Bothwell and published a chart of Tasmania.

Citations

  • Crawford, G.H. (1967), 'Thomas Scott’, Melbourne, Vic : in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.

  • von Stieglitz, K.R. (ed.) (1966), 'Sketches in Early Van Diemen’s Land by Thomas Scott’, Hobart, Tas.

  • '[James Reid Scott Papers]’, Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia.

  • 'Sketches and plans: 1820 and following years’, Sydney, NSW : Thomas Scott Papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

  • Ross, James (ed.) (1830), 'Recollections of a short excursion to Lake Echo in March 1823’, Hobart Town, Tasmania : Hobart Town Almanack.

  • Mulligan (1866), 'List of words in use by the Oyster Bay Tribe of Aborigines’, in Dialects of Aboriginal Tribes of Tasmania.

Initial data sources

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