Samuel F. Mossman

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher, drew a view in 1840 of Geelong, Victoria. Geelong Art Gallery holds a copy overpainted in gouache of 'Geelong in 1840' but the original has not been located.
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sketcher, drew a view in 1840 of Geelong, Victoria, 'taken from the rising ground on the east side, overlooking part of Corio Bay, where two small coasters are seen at anchor’. One of the ships, the cutter Devonshire , had brought Mossman from Melbourne to Geelong. Many years later, when living in Jersey (UK), Mossman sent the drawing to the Australasian Sketcher which reported that he 'lays no claim to artistic merit in its execution, but states that the outline of the embryo town as it then appeared is faithfully given’. A lithograph after his sketch Geelong in 1840 appeared in the journal on 10 June 1876. The Geelong Art Gallery holds a copy overpainted in gouache but the original has not been located.

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Date written:
1992
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2011

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Related works
  • Geelong in 1840 (creator of)
Related collections
  • Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Vic. (collected in)