William Lushington Goodwin b. c.1798

Also known as W. L. Goodwin
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Printmaker)
Colonial Tasmanian engraver, amateur photographer, newspaper editor and merchant mariner. As the editor of the Cornwall Chronicle, Goodwin regularly upset his readers and members of the Launceston community with his 'abominably scurrilous' caricatures and drawings.

Citations

  • (1992), 'Dictionary of Australian Artists’, ed. Joan Kerr, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Craig, Clifford (1966), 'William Lushington Goodwin’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, vol 1, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Button, Henry (1909), 'Flotsam and Jetsam’, Launceston, Tas.

  • Kerr, Joan (1999), 'Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White’, Sydney, NSW : National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery.

  • Mahood, Marguerite (1973), 'The Loaded Line: Australian Political Caricature 1788-1901’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Newton, Gael (1988), 'Shades of Light’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

  • Tanner, Les (1988), 'Comic chronicler with a cruel streak’, Age, Saturday Extra, 06-04, p.9.

  • (1862), '(obituary)’, Cornwall Chronicle, 08-06.

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

  • Craig, Clifford (1986), 'Notes on Tasmania’, Launceston, Tas.

  • Paffen, Paul, PhD, University of Melbourne, Vic.

  • Paffen, Paul (1999), 'Forgotten Faces?: Portraits and other images of the Convict in Van Diemen’s Land’, Hobart, Tas. : Tasmanian Historical Research Association: Papers and Proceedings, June, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 57-95.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions