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sketcher, came to Victoria from Dublin on a health voyage in the early 1850s. In 1898 George Dunderdale, who came out on the same ship, published his recollections of Scott when they were both on the Bendigo goldfields:

Scott, the artist, admired Bez [David Beswick, another young man on the voyage]; he said he had the head, the features, and the talent of a Shakespeare. He had a sketch of Bez in his portfolio, which he was filling with crooked trees, common diggers and ugly blackamoors.

Dunderdale described how Scott drew a portrait and sketched the tattoos of 'the ugliest Maori he could find in a rush of Maoris, near Job’s Gully’, in preference to digging for gold. This created quite a commotion: 'every man, black and white, crowded around Scott while he was at work with his pencil, and then every single savage shook hands with him, and made signs to have his tattoos taken’. According to Dunderdale, Scott died in Melbourne Hospital of a tumour soon afterwards.

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Writers:

Staff Writer

Date written:

1992

Last updated:

2011