George Thomson

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Colonial era Victorian sketcher.
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sketcher, drew comic sketches that were published as lithographs in the album Sketches in Victoria , printed by James J. Blundell & Co. at Melbourne c.1855 (copy ML). Sketch in Bourke St, Arrival of the Mails from the Diggings depicts a mixed gathering of classes in front of the Albion Hotel, Melbourne, while Sketch on Sandridge Pier , Port Melbourne, a copperplate engraving printed by George F. Tran & Co. and published by Blundell, shows typical arrivals in gold-rush Victoria disembarking at the Port Melbourne wharves: sailors, a gentleman, a labourer and a group of Chinese (ill. DAA ).

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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Related collections
  • La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)