Richard Tester

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher and gold-digger, wrote and illustrated an account of a journey to the goldfields, between 'Kerkabaroo' on the Wakefield River, South Australia, and Bendigo in Victoria, together with an anonymous doctor friend.
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Name
Richard Tester
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Other Occupation
  • Writer
  • Gold-digger
Active Period
  • c.1851
Residence
  • 1851 Adelaide, SA
  • 1851 Melbourne, Vic.
  • 1851 Bendigo, Vic.
  • 1851 'Kerkabaroo' on the Wakefield River, SA
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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Related stub people
  • Tester, Hephzibah (associate of)
Related works
  • (Travellers' accommodation at the Loddon River) (creator of)
  • (Portrait of a young Aboriginal woman) (creator of)
  • 'Mornin Mate! Have yer seen any mob this way?' (creator of)
  • Wombat wallaby - Reminiscences of a trip overland to Melbourne and the goldfields (creator of)
Related collections
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)