Hirschmann, W. A.

Colonial governors, Melbourne's Ormond College and portraits of Aboriginal Australians appear in prints by W. A. Hirschmann,...

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Colonial governors, Melbourne's Ormond College and portraits of Aboriginal Australians appear in prints by W. A. Hirschmann, a wood engraver of the 1880s who worked on the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia. His subjects also include the Victorian town of Clunes and portraits of people from Tonga and New Guinea. Hirschmann cut the printed image, sometimes after another maker's photograph: the National Library of Australia identifies his portrait of an Aboriginal woman, published in the atlas in 1887, as an engraving after J. W. Lindt's earlier studio photograph of Mary Ann Cowan.

Colonial governors, Melbourne's Ormond College and portraits of Aboriginal Australians appear in prints by W. A. Hirschmann, a wood engraver of the 1880s who worked on the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia. His subjects also include the Victorian town of Clunes and portraits of people from Tonga and New Guinea. Hirschmann cut the printed image, sometimes after another maker's photograph: the National Library of Australia identifies his portrait of an Aboriginal woman, published in the atlas in 1887, as an engraving after J. W. Lindt's earlier studio photograph of Mary Ann Cowan.

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