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wood engraver, came to Victoria from England. He is said to have engraved many of the theatrical posters pasted up in Melbourne during the late 1850s and 1860s, using very large blocks of New Zealand kauri pine on which to cut his designs. By 1864 he was living and working at Cambridge Street, East Collingwood. Apart from revisiting England on business (probably in the 1870s), he remained a Melbourne 'wood-pecker’ for the rest of his working life. Although reputedly still at Collingwood at the end of the 1880s and still producing theatrical posters, Frisbee did not reply when Herbert Woodhouse wrote asking him for biographical information for a lecture he was preparing on Victorian engravers. Woodhouse cites his posters of George Coppin as 'Milky White’ and as 'Paul Pry’, and he is also credited with posters of G.V. Brooke, Barry Sullivan and Walter Montgomery.

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Date written:

1992

Last updated:

1989