Artist · Australia

1853 to 1902

Work

“cartoonist”

Portrait of Tom Durkin
Born1853
Born inat sea
CountryAustralia
Died1902

Tom Durkin.

cartoonist

Australia, 1853 to 1902

In short

Thomas Coleman Durkin (1853 to 29 April 1902) was an Australian cartoonist and caricaturist based in Melbourne, active in the decades before Federation. He contributed to a variety of newspapers and illustrated journals during the 1870s and 1880s, including a series of caricatures of prominent Victorians published in the Melbourne newspaper, The Weekly Times. Fourteen lithographic prints from this series are now held by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.

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Born
1853, at sea
Died
1902
Citizenship
Australia
Work
cartoonist
Career

Tom Durkin, in numbers

Lifetime

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Portrait of Tom Durkin