William Stanley Jevons b. 1 September 1835

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Nineteenth century sketcher, amateur photographer, economist, logician, amateur botanist and musician. Jevon's took photographs of people and scenery around Sydney and the Braidwood-Araluen goldfields.

Citations

  • Martin, Megan (2003), 'Mr Miller of the Mint’, Historic Houses Trust, Sydney, NSW : Insites, 4-5, Winter, Illustrated with Jevons’s 1857-58 photos of his Mint colleague Francis Bowyer Miller, Alice Miller, their Double Bay home and the assay balance and its fittings at the mint.

  • La Nauze, J.A. (1972), 'William Stanley Jevons’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, Pike, Douglas (ed.), Melbourne, Vic.

  • Stephens, L. & Lee, S. (eds.) (c.1885), Dictionary of National Biographies : London, England, UK (22 vols).

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

  • Collison Black, R.D. (ed.) (c.1972), 'Papers and Correspondence of W.S. Jevons’, London, England, UK, (2 volumes), 1972-1973.

  • Burke, I. (1955), 'Australia’s first pictorialist’, Australasian Photo-Review, January, 62/1.

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

  • Jevons, Harriet (ed.) (1886), 'Letters and Journal of W. Stanley Jevons’, London, England, UK.

  • Jevons, W.S., '(Cashbook, 1854-1856)’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (manuscript).

  • Jevons, W.S. (1858), 'Social survey of Sydney’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (manuscript).

  • Information sourced from Bruce, Candice.

  • La Nauze, J.A. (1949), 'Jevons in Sydney’, Political Economy in Australia, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Cato, J. (1958), 'Photography’, Australian Encyclopedia.

See also

  • 'Aborigines at Jembaicumbene 1860 1859, albumen silver stereoscopic photograph, 7.4 x 14.4 cm, Historic Photograph Collection, University of Sydney'.

Initial data sources

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