copper engraver, engraved views of Sydney scenes and buildings in the 1850s when working from 244 Pitt Street, Sydney. An undated engraving of Sydney University is in the university’s art collection. His billhead for James Gregg, draper, hosier, haberdasher, clothier and grocer of Cumberland House, Church Street, Parramatta, showing Gregg’s two-storey colonial shop flanked by Chinese vignettes (Mitchell Library), was made out in April 1855.
Soon afterwards Ransome moved to Melbourne. He was listed at 86A Bourke Street in 1857, at 408 Bourke Street by 1864. His large engraving of Great Bourke Street 'from the site of the present Parliament House’ showing the street as it had been in 1840, was probably made in the 1860s. It was purchased for the Victorian national collections for two guineas in 1891 (La Trobe Library).
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
