Augustus Prinsep b. 31 March 1803

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Augustus Prinsep was a sketcher, writer and civil servant. He is known from his work, The Journal of a Voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen's Land which his wife published posthumously.
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Name
Augustus Prinsep
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Other Occupation
  • Commissioner of Pergunnah Palamow (ANZSIC code: 75)
  • Legal 'writer' (Clerk) (ANZSIC code: 6931)
  • Civil servant (ANZSIC code: 75)
  • Writer (ANZSIC code: 9002)
Birth date
31 March 1803
Birth place
London, England, UK
Death date
10 October 1830
Arrival
  • 22 September 1829 (Hobart Town)
Residence
  • 1829 - 1830 Van Diemen's Land (Tas.)
  • 1829 Batavia, Indonesia
  • 1803 - 1819 London, England, UK
  • c.1821 - c.1829 Calcutta, India
Training
  • c.1819 - c.1919 Haileybury College
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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References [<ExternalResource: Prinsep, A. (1980), 'Introduction by Brown, G.', The Journal of a Voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen's Land: Comprising a Description of that Colony during a Six Months Residence, facsimile edn, Hobart, Tas.>, <ExternalResource: Craig, C. (1964), 'Old Tasmanian Prints', Launceston, Tas.>, <ExternalResource: Prinsep, H. T. (Sir) (1969), 'Three generations in India, 1771-1904', mss Eur. C. 97, 1-4, (cited in Archer, Mildred, British Drawings in the India Office Library, Volume I, Amateur Artists, London, Her/His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO), 288 (Prinsep Collection).>]