Edward Charles Moore

Also known as E. C. Moore
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Colonial era Ballarat cartoonist, sketcher, actor and businessman
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cartoonist, sketcher, actor and businessman, was one of the founders of the first series of Ballarat Punch in 1857, together with C.A. Abbott . Herbert Woodhouse called him a gifted amateur actor and 'a smart humorous artist’ and said he drew the outside cover for the first issue of the magazine. Unfortunately, it never appeared 'for want of the necessary wood or stone gravers’, Withers recollected. The magazine was printed by F.W. Niven on one of Alfred Ronalds 's old hand-presses and did not survive much beyond November and issue no.5 (the only one known). Ten years later, when the second, far more successful Ballarat Punch began Moore was not among the illustrators.

Moore was also secretary of the Ballarat Turf Club.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
1989

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