Title

An admirable and spirited likeness [of Billy Blue, The Old Commodore by John Carmichael].

Author

Sydney Times.

Details

Sydney Times, 19 September 1834, page 2, column 5

Publication date

19 September 1834

Type

Publication Review

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

An admirable and spirited likeness of our lamented, facetious and patriarchal colonist, Billy Blue, has been lithographed with great felicity by Mr. Carmichael and no less to encourage a skillful and afflicted artist than to commemorate so celebrated a character as the Old Commodore, of happy memory, a large impression will doubtless be sold. The only imaginable defect the performance, seems to us to be, that it does not convey to those who did not know him, the idea of a ... man, or copper completion. We embrace the present as a most suitable opportunity to lend our aid to immortalize the Commodore, by some lines written in his time, and now for the first time published, in our poets corner. [Sydney Times, 19 September 1834, page 2, column 5].

Web address

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/252811209

Last Updated

19 Jun 2024