William Cawston b. c.1828

  • Artist (Photographer)
Professional photographer, framer and gilder. Arrived in Tasmania as a convict and founded the photographic studio Cawston and Sons.

Citations

  • Button, Henry (c.1872), 'Flotsam and Jetsam’.

  • Lake, Robyn; and Mulford, Therese (August 2002), 'A stranger to the town: The life of colonial painter Frederick Strange’, Australiana, [81], .

  • Davies, Alan; and Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900’, Melbourne, Vic : Oxford University Press.

  • Cato, J. (1955), 'The Story of the Camera in Australia’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (13 June 1856), Tasmania : Tasmanian Daily News.

  • (1868), Tasmania : Walch’s Tasmanian Almanac.

  • Long, C., 'Tasmania – the first photographs’, (Manuscript).

  • Tasmania : Archives Office of Tasmania (30/1 25).

  • Tasmania : Archives Office of Tasmania (30/2112).

  • Tasmania : Archives Office of Tasmania (31/506).

  • Tasmania : Archives Office of Tasmania (21/1 6).

  • Tasmania : Archives Office of Tasmania (NS276/9).

  • Information sourced from Stilwell, G. T.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions