Thomas Harford

Also known as T. H., T. Harford
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter, sketcher, signwriter and draughtsman, Harford accompanied Samuel Stutchbury and William Curtis on their geological and mineralogical survey of New South Wales in 1850-54.
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painter, sketcher, signwriter and draughtsman, accompanied Samuel Stutchbury and William Curtis on their geological and mineralogical survey of New South Wales in 1850-54. A number of drawings in a diary compiled by Stutchbury on this expedition are initialled T.H. (Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney), while a portfolio containing 20 watercolour drawings of Australian orchids includes some inscribed 'T.H. 1854’ (Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney). Others are by Curtis and L.V.D . A signwriter and decorator in Melbourne during the 1860s and 1870s called T. Harford designed a number of the transparencies erected in Melbourne for the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh in 1867 in partnership with John Gillett .

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Date written:
1992
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2011

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