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C1866
Capture of the Bushranger Dunn, by M’Halle, …
Rare colonial engraving of the bushranger, John Dunn 1846? born at Murrumburrah near Yass, New South Wales. Dunn was associated with Ben Hall and John Gilbert. On 26 January 1865, Hall, Gilbert and Dunn were at Collector, near Lake George. … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Capture of the Bushranger Dunn, by M’Halle, Elliott, and Hawthorne.
Date:
C1866
Engraver:
L.Cawker
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
240mm
x 173mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1866
Description:
Rare colonial engraving of the bushranger, John Dunn 1846? born at Murrumburrah near Yass, New South Wales.
Dunn was associated with Ben Hall and John Gilbert. On 26 January 1865, Hall, Gilbert and Dunn were at Collector, near Lake George. Dunn shot the local police officer, Constable Samuel Nelson, while Hall and Gilbert held up the hotel. He was captured on 26 December 1865. He hid in a trap door under the Melbourne jail. He is buried in the old Devonshire Street cemetery in Sydney.
From the original edition of The Illustrated Sydney News.
References:
Gibbs & Shallard. Illustrated Sydney News. ISSN 2203-5397.
Collections:
State Library New South Wales: F8/39-40
State Library Victoria: PCINF SLVIC=1853-1872
National Library Australia: Bib ID 440095
Arthur Levett Jackson (1834 - 1888)
Documentary detail on Jackson’s personal life is comparatively sparse, a common situation for c.19th engravers, whose labour underpinned illustrated publishing but who rarely received the individual attention given to painters or draughtsmen. What can be reconstructed places him firmly within the skilled artisan class that supported Sydney’s expanding print culture in the mid to late Victorian period.
Born in 1834, likely in Britain, Jackson would have served a formal apprenticeship in wood engraving, a trade demanding precision, patience, and close collaboration with publishers. Training involved mastering engraving tools (burins and gravers), working on dense end-grain boxwood blocks, and learning to translate tonal wash drawings into systems of line, hatch, and stipple. Such training suggests a background in an urban craft environment rather than an academic art school.
His migration to New South Wales probably occurred during the great waves of skilled British emigration to Australia in the 1850s–60s, when the colonial press was expanding rapidly.
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