Walter Syer b. 1854

Also known as Walter S. Syer
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Federation period Sydney illustrator.
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illustrator, is best known for his pencil portraits. Some were made into etchings by Lionel Lindsay , e.g. that of David Scott Mitchell. Syer illustrated the poems of Henry Lawson and 50 of his pencil drawings were included in a limited edition of Lawson’s In the Days When the World War Wide (n.d.). ML has a strange little ink drawing of four views of Quong Tart dated 8.1.88, 10.9.87 (12), 8.1.87 (7) and 'Sup. [then?] 87’; three show him in a Scottish kilt (two heads and one full length), one in evening dress.

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Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007

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