William Jones

  • Artist (Printmaker)
Engraver and clockmaker, had a shop in Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, in 1850 when the convict engraver Thomas Robinson was working for him. Most of Jones's surviving copper engravings are vignettes of clients' business premises on billheads.

Citations

  • Craig, C. (1961), 'The Engravers of Van Diemen’s Land’, Launceston, Tas.

  • (1975), 'The Clifford Craig Collection’, Christie’s auction catalogue, November, Launceston, Tas.

  • (1850), Cornwall Chronicle, 11-28.

  • Craig, C. (1964), 'Old Tasmanian Prints’, Launceston, Tas.

Initial data sources

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