A. B.

Also known as Alfred Scott Broad
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Colonial-era Melbourne cartoonist who contributed to Melbourne Punch in the late 1880s. There is some speculation that A.B. is Alfred Scott Broad.
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cartoonist, contributed to Melbourne Punch signing work 'AB’, e.g. Better Than Nothing . 'The Yan Yean is very bad, and Jones cannot afford a regular filter. However, the use of a sieve gets rid of the chief impurities’ 1 April 1886 (ill. Fabian, 101). There is some speculation that A.B. might be the artist Alfred Scott Broad .

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Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
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2007

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References [<ExternalResource: (1886), Melbourne Punch, 04-01.>, <ExternalResource: Fabian, Suzanne (ed.) (1982), 'Mr. Punch down under : a social history of the colony from 1856 to 1900 via cartoons and extracts from Melbourne punch', Richmond, Vic : Greenhouse Publications, p 101.>]