Cyrus Mason b. 1829

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
English colonial male lithographer, watercolourist, and draughtsman. His diverse career included writing and illustrating children's books, teaching, publishing newspapers, public speaking and founding music and art societies.
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Citations

  • 'Mason family papers’.

  • McCulloch, A. (1977), 'Artists of the Australian Gold Rush’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, 2 Volumes (facsimile reprint, 1930).

  • (1857), Argus, March, 5.

  • (1855), Melbourne Morning Herald, March, 1.

  • (1875), Sydney Mail, July, 10.

  • Darragh, T., 'Directory of nineteenth century lithographers and engravers working in Victoria’, (manuscript).

  • Woodhouse, H. (1889), 'The Victorian pioneers of litho-drawing and engraving’, (typescript), La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC.

  • Mason, Cyrus (1852), 'The Practical Lithographer’, London, England, UK.

  • Mason, Cyrus (1855), 'Illustrated Family News’, 4 Issues.

  • Mason, Cyrus (1869), 'The Building Times’, October to December, Melbourne, Vic.

  • 'Building News’, London, England, UK.

  • (1871), 'The Australian Christmas Story Book’, December, Melbourne, Vic (republished National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT,1988).

  • Mason, Cyrus (1871), 'The Multiplying Art’, May, Technological Museum, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Mason, Cyrus (1871), 'Railways’, September, Mechanics Institute , Melbourne, Vic.

  • Mason, Cyrus (1873), 'Sketching from Nature – Ruskin applied to Australia’, April, Athenaeum, Melbourne, Vic.

Initial data sources

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

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