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C1901
INVITATION-His Majesty’s Ministers of State for the Commonwealth of Australia / request the honour of the presence of The Hon the President of the Senate Sir Richard C Baker KCMG and Lady Baker, / in the Exhibition Building, Melbourne, on Thursday, 9th Ma
Artist:
Tom Carrington (1843 - 1918)
Invitation to witness the Opening of the Parliament of the Commonwealth, Edmund Barton, Prime Minister. The Invitation is addressed to The Honorable James and Miss Campbell. Tom Carrington’s monogram at lower right. His Majesty’s Ministers of State for the Commonwealth of … Read Full Description
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INVITATION-His Majesty’s Ministers of State for the Commonwealth of Australia / request the honour of the presence of The Hon the President of the Senate Sir Richard C Baker KCMG and Lady Baker, / in the Exhibition Building, Melbourne, on Thursday, 9th Ma
Date:
C1901
Artist:
Tom Carrington (1843 - 1918)
Condition:
Minor spotting to sheet edges, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Original colour lithograph.
Image Size:
330mm
x 260mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1901
Description:
Invitation to witness the Opening of the Parliament of the Commonwealth, Edmund Barton, Prime Minister.
The Invitation is addressed to The Honorable James and Miss Campbell. Tom Carrington’s monogram at lower right.
His Majesty’s Ministers of State for the Commonwealth of Australia / request the honour of the presence of The Hon the President of the Senate Sir Richard C Baker KCMG and Lady Baker, / in the Exhibition Building, Melbourne, on Thursday, 9th May, 1901, to witness / the Opening of the Parliament of the Commonwealth.
Edmund Barton, Prime Minister.
Biography:
Francis Thomas Dean (1843-1918) (Tom Carrington)
Known as Tom Carrington, he was a journalist, political cartoonist and illustrator in colonial Australia. Carrington was born in London, England, and educated at the City of London School. He received his first lesson in drawing from George Cruikshank, and went through the South Kensington course. He commenced drawing for Clarke & Co., Paternoster Row, a title-page to one of Thomas Mayne Reid’s novels being his first appearance in print.
Carrington came to Australia in the 1860s, and after some experience on the diggings at Wood’s Point, Jericho, Jordan, and Crooked River, he joined Melbourne Punch in 1866, succeeding Nicholas Chevalier and O. R. Campbell. With this paper he was connected for twenty-one years. Carrington left Punch when it was amalgamated with The Bulletin and joined the Melbourne Australasian.
