painter and illustrator, contributed cartoons to the Barrier Daily Truth in the 1890s – a paper sympathetic to the miners’ federation (info. Jo Holder typescript). He drew Affairs at Broken Hill, published in the Illustrated Australian News in 1890 (Dunstan, plate 1). His drawings in the Queensland Leader of 1892 – not really cartoons – include scenes at the Broken Hill miners’ strike after BHP reopened the mines with scab labour. A scene published 3 September 1892, attributed to Macfarlane, is Women Assaulting [a non-unionist] (ill. Harris, 94). He illustrated At The Races: The Melbourne Cup 1892 (Melbourne: Thompson, 1892) and G. Dwithdale, The Book of the Bush (London: Ward, 1898) and made dramatic historical drawings of Australian exploration subjects, including the expeditions of Sturt, Mitchell, Henty, Leichhardt, McDouall Stuart, Forrest, Eyre etc.
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- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
