Maurice Helm b. 1809

  • Artist (Printmaker)
Lithographer and engraver, was a native of Germany who arrived in Melbourne in April 1849 and set up a short-lived engraving and lithography business. His only known work is an advertisement for coffee.
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lithographer and engraver, was a native of Saxony (Germany) who arrived at Melbourne in April 1849 in the Dockenhuden . He set up an engraving and lithography business in Swanston Street with T.P. Hentschel , but the partnership was dissolved on 15 July 1850 and each briefly continued on his own. A circular by 'M. Helm & Co. Melbourne’ advertises the coffee sold at Nicholson’s three Melbourne wholesale and retail grocery establishments (c.1850, La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria) with a fanciful illustration of the daily coffee-grinding and roasting on the premises 'by the newly invented steam Apparatus’ manufactured by Sir Hans Sloane in London, together with a portrait of Britannia seated next to a kettle. This is Helm’s only known pictorial work.

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1992
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  • La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)