illustrator and/or engraver, was the pseudonym of the unidentified Tasmanian artist who copied illustrations from Charles Dickens’s Pickwick Papers for Henry Dowling’s pirated edition of the book. Henry Dowling, brother of Robert Dowling, first published this at Launceston as an unillustrated serial (1838-39), then late in 1839 as a bound single volume with twenty lithographic illustrations. These competent copies and adaptations of the English engravings are all signed 'Tiz’ in imitation of 'Phiz’, the pseudonym of Hablot Browne, the artist of the originals. Many of the drawings carry both signatures in opposite bottom corners.
The initials 'T.L.’ which appear next to the pseudonymous signature in one of the illustrations is the only clue to Tiz’s identity, yet the only artist with these initials known to have been working in Tasmania at this time was Thomas Lempriere - who seems unlikely. Ferguson states that the illustrations 'are generally considered to be the work of Jack Briggs, a servant of Dowling’ – who is completely unknown as an artist.
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
