Augustus Prinsep b. 31 March 1803

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Augustus Prinsep was a sketcher, writer and civil servant. He is known from his work, The Journal of a Voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen's Land which his wife published posthumously.

Citations

  • Prinsep, A. (1980), 'Introduction by Brown, G.’, The Journal of a Voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen’s Land: Comprising a Description of that Colony during a Six Months Residence, facsimile edn, Hobart, Tas.

  • Craig, C. (1964), 'Old Tasmanian Prints’, Launceston, Tas.

  • Prinsep, H. T. (Sir) (1969), 'Three generations in India, 1771-1904’, mss Eur. C. 97, 1-4, (cited in Archer, Mildred, British Drawings in the India Office Library, Volume I, Amateur Artists, London, Her/His Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), 288 (Prinsep Collection).

Initial data sources

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