William Henry Le Mesurier

Also known as William Le Mesurier
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Caricaturist and army engineer. His work 'Professor Elliot's Grand Ascent de Cheminé' (1854) shows a hairy trouserless Lieutenant R. Elliot about to climb up the chimney during an evening drinking party, benignly observed by the local police magistrate and a fellow officer of the 99th Regiment.

Citations

  • Erickson, R. (1988), 'The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre 1829-1888’, Nedlands, WA.

  • A. Hasluck (1959), 'Unwilling Emigrants’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1973), 'Royal Engineer’, Sydney , NSW.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870