William Thomas b. 1791

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
A sketcher who during the 1840s worked as a protector of Aborigines, who form the subject of his work.

Citations

  • Bride, T.F. (1898), 'Letters from Victorian Pioneers’, Melbourne, Vic : (new edn 1983).

  • (1982), 'Historical Records of Victoria’, Melbourne, Vic : The Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835-1839, [Cannon M. (ed.)], vol. 2a.

  • Presland, G. (1985), 'The Land of the Kulin: Discovering the Lost Landscape and the First People of Port Phillip’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1983), 'Historical Records of Victoria’, Melbourne, Vic : Aborigines and Protectors, [Cannon, M. (ed.)], vol. 2b.

  • Brough Smith, R. (1878), 'The Aborigines of Victoria and Other Parts of Australia’, Melbourne, Vic.

Initial data sources

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