Primary Artist

Tom Durkin (1853–1900)

Title

A town clerk [Mr Edmund Gerald Fitzgibbon].

Source

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

Page or Plate number

plate 33

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69, 1986),

Date made

9 January 1875 (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 (black image, buff tint)

Text printed from matrix

printed upper right above image in black ink, 'January 9, 1875'.
printed upper centre above image in black ink, 'THE WEEKLY TIMES.'.
printed lower centre below image in black ink, 'MASKS & FACES. No. 33. - A TOWN CLERK. / 'He Rules the Roost!'.

Edition information

print-run unknown

Subject categories

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

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

152310

Creators

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

Last Updated

24 May 2026