Primary Artist

Tom Durkin (1853–1900)

Title

A premier [The Hon. George Briscoe Kerferd].

Source

Masks and faces, an albumn of 36 lithographed caricatures, Melbourne: Weekly Times, 1873-1875

Page or Plate number

Plate 24

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69, 1986),

Date made

29 August 1874 (imprint)

Place made

Naam / Melbourne, Victoria, Australia View on map Close map

Category

Print

Print type

planographic

Technique

lithograph, printed in colour inks, from two stones (black image, buff tint)

Support

off-white paper

Support size

35.6 x 24.0 cm (sheet)

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

Edition information

print-run unknown

Subject description

A portrait of the 10th premier of Victoria, The Hon. George Briscoe Kerferd (1831 1889).

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

152301

Accession number

2011.1471.36

Accession method

Purchase

Meeting

Meeting 2, 2011/2012 (2011-10-25)

Provenance

Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from Peter Arnold Antiquarian Booksellers, Melbourne, 2011

Credit line

Purchased 2011

Subject categories

Australia, Book arts: Illustrated book | Australia, Printed ephemera: Newspaper supplement | Australia, Art period: Colonial, Caricature

Country of context

Australia

Creators

Durkin, Tom. | (1853–1900) Male | artist

Last Updated

25 May 2026