Edward Shribbs

  • Artist (Painter)
Edward Shribbs was a theatrical scene-painter and mechanist. He arrived in Hobart Town from England in 1833. By the mid 1830s, however, he began travelling for work between Tasmania and Sydney and was the principal scene-painter at Sydney's Theatre Royal by 1836.
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Name
Edward Shribbs
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Other Occupation
  • mechanist
  • scene-painter
Death date
July 1841
Active Period
  • c.1833 - c.1839
Arrival
  • 1833 (Hobart Town, Tasmania)
Residence
  • c.November 1837 - c.July 1841 Sydney, New South Wales
  • May 1837 - November 1837 Hobart Town, Tasmania
  • c.1836 - c.1837 Sydney, New South Wales
  • c.1833 - c.1836 Hobart Town, Tasmania
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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