Travelling photographer, scene-painter, architect, showman and actor. Merlin created painted and photographic 'panoramas', and extensively photographed the houses and public buildings of many regional areas of New South Wales.
travelling photographer, scene-painter, architect, showman and actor, was born in England, son of Frederick Murlin, a chemist and salesman, and Ann Harriet, only daughter of Lieutenant Benjamin Beaufoy RN.
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1992
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Ballarat Municipal Library, Ballarat, Victoria (collected in)
Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
Holtermann Collection, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
Ballarat Municipal Library, Ballarat, Victoria (collected in)
Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
Holtermann Collection, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)