illustrator and caricaturist, drew illustrations for Town and Country Journal, e.g. 'The Jubilee Fireworks display in Sydney Harbour – A brilliant commemoration’ 2 July 1887, 26 (re Queen Victoria’s Jubilee); 'The recent Intercolonial lawn tennis tournament held on Association Ground, Moore Park, Sydney’ 14 May 1887, 1014 (and others, all 'Australian’ topics). He was chief artist on Town and Country in 1889, a paper that also controlled the Illustrated Sydney News (whose artists were A.S. Broad and J.C. Gasking, acc. Moore ii, 112).
In 1903 George Taylor wrote:
“Grosse on rare occasions wanders into the realms of caricature with notable success. Few of our artists possess such exquisite feeling for gradations and contrasts in black and white. His absolute command of the pen or brush can be imagined when it is mentioned that not only is he a black and white artist of exceptional excellence, but he has no superior in the world as a scientific draftsman – one, for instance, who can depict with microscopic exactness the gradations in tone on the antennae of the Rolyateog Australiensis.”
Taylor illustrated his comments with a caricature, The Australian Bee Expert (p.38).
- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
