View in Australia / John Skinner Prout
View in Australia / John Skinner Prout
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View in Australia / John Skinner Prout
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General note
This image also appears in "Australia", by Edwin Carton Booth, illustrated with drawings by Skinner Prout, etc. London: Virtue, 1873-1876, vol. I, p. 45. ML DSM/Q980.1/46A1 v.1-2. In this publication the image is titled, 'Grass tree plains', and has been identified as being on Flinders Island, Tasmania. Also see Appendix 2, p. 80 in Skinner Prou...
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Signed: J. Skinner Prout, undated. Title pencilled in bottom right-hand corner.
Date note
Date based upon artist arrived in Australia.
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Administrative / Biographical history
John Skinner Prout, (1805-1876), artist, was born on 19 December 1805 at Plymouth, England. He arrived with his wife and seven children in Sydney on 14 December, 1840. He brought a complete lithographic printing press with him, and in early 1841 he started producing lithographed versions of his drawings of Sydney. In January 1844, Prout moved to...
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V*/Sp Coll/Prout/1
Record Identifier
npAdmvm1
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457805
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