Melbourne Punch (from 1900, simply titled Punch ) was an Australian illustrated magazine founded by Edgar Ray and Frederick Sinnett , and published from August 1855 to December 1925. The magazine was modelled closely on Punch of London which was founded fifteen years earlier. A similar magazine, Adelaide Punch , was published in South Australia from 1878 to 1884.
17-908: Ray and Sinnett published the magazine 1855–1883, followed by Alex McKinley 1883. Staff artists included Nicholas Chevalier 1855–1861, Tom Carrington 1866–1887, J. H. Leonard 1886 – c. 1891. Contributing artists included J. C. Bancks , Luther Bradley , Samuel Calvert , O. R. Campbell , George Dancey , Tom Carrington , Tom Durkin , Ambrose Dyson and his brother Will Dyson , S. T. Gill , Alex Gurney , Hal Gye , Percy Leason , Emile Mercier , Alex Sass , Montague Scott , Alf Vincent , Samuel Garnet Wells , and Cecil "Unk" White . Editors included Frederick Sinnett (1855–1857), James Smith (1857–1863), Charles Bright (1863–1866), William Jardine Smith (1866-1869), Tom Carrington (intermittently) and John Bede Dalley (1924). Writers included Butler Cole Aspinall , Charles Gavan Duffy , R. H. Horne, James Smith, Thomas Carrington and Nicholas Chevalier. It
34-569: A lyrebird -inspired fan as an accessory to the outfit. It appears that she never wore the dress as she chose to appear as a "Marquise of the Court of Louis XV " for the Mayor's Ball in 1863. Chevalier's dress design was rejected by Barkly but they collaborated to work on a present for the newly married Princess of Wales . The present was from the women of Victoria and like the dress the silver and gold flower stand featured icons of Australian life. Her husband
51-599: A fountain which was erected in the royal grounds at Osborne , and two of his paintings were hung at the Academy in 1852. Further study in painting followed at Rome . In late 1854 Chevalier sailed from London to Australia on board the Swallow to join his father and brother, and arrived in Melbourne on 25 December. In August 1855 he obtained work as a cartoonist on the newly established Melbourne Punch . Later he did illustrative work for
68-742: The Bishop of Melbourne . The wedding was at Christ Church, South Yarra which had been completed in 1857. She and her husband honeymooned at the governor's residence whilst her father went to New Zealand to take command during the First Taranaki War . In the year that she married, she had a dress design created for her by the Russian-born artist Nicholas Chevalier . It was intended as fancy dress and featured fern-inspired designs; its construction included sheepskin and gemstones. The dress has been cited as an example of pteridomania . Chevalier also designed
85-614: The Geelong Art Gallery , Victoria. Anne Maria Barkly Anne Maria Barkly, Lady Barkly ( née Pratt ; 1837–1932) was an Australian botanist active in the flora of Mauritius and South Africa. Barkly was born in Edinburgh in 1838. Melbourne became a city ten years later. She lived for twelve years in India before moving to Australia with her parents Frances Agnes (born Cooper) and Major General Thomas Simson Pratt . Her father
102-572: The Illustrated Australian News and also worked in chromolithography. He accompanied explorer/meteorologist Georg von Neumayer on trips to remote areas of Victoria, and the material gathered on such journeys resulted in some of his most recognised pieces of this period, including his painting of Mount Arapiles in Western Victoria. Chevalier designed a dress for the governor's wife, the botanist Lady Barkly . The outfit incorporated
119-698: The National Gallery of Victoria , the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery , Art Gallery of New South Wales and the National Library of Australia (Canberra) are among the public collections holding works by Chevalier. In 2011 Chevalier was the subject of a major survey exhibition and publication, Australian Odyssey , mounted by the Gippsland Art Gallery in Sale, Victoria , which subsequently showed at
136-594: The Melbourne collection. In 1865 Chevalier visited New Zealand , travelling widely and doing much work there which was exhibited at Melbourne on his return. In 1869 he joined HMS Galatea as an artist with the Duke of Edinburgh , on the voyage to the East and back to London with stops in Tahiti, Hawaii, Japan, China, Ceylon and India. The pictures painted during the voyage were exhibited at South Kensington. In January 1874 Chevalier
153-474: The Southern Cross, and Chevalier also designed a lyrebird-inspired fan as an accessory to the outfit. It appears that she never wore the dress as she chose to appear as a "Marquise of the Court of Louis XV" for the Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball in 1863. Chevalier and Lady Barkly later collaborated on a present for the newly married Princess of Wales in the same year. The present was from the women of Victoria and like
170-454: The dress, the chosen silver and gold flower stand design featured icons of Australian life. In 1864, when the National Gallery of Victoria was founded, an exhibition of works by Victorian artists was held. The government agreed to buy the best picture exhibited for £200. Chevalier's oil painting The Buffalo Ranges was selected, and was the first picture painted in Australia to be included in
187-560: The son of Louis Chevalier, who came from Vaud , Switzerland , and was overseer to the estates of the Prince de Wittgenstein in Russia. Nicholas' mother was Russian. Nicholas left Russia with his father in 1845, and studied painting and architecture in Lausanne , Switzerland and at Munich . In 1851 Chevalier moved to London and worked as an illustrator in lithography and watercolour. He also designed
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#1732852406117204-670: Was a man of much personal charm and spoke fluent French, English, Russian, German, Italian and Portuguese. He was a good amateur musician being second violinist in the Royal Amateur Orchestral Society which had been started by officers in the Galatea and in which the duke was first violin. The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa , the Dunedin Public Art Gallery (New Zealand), the Honolulu Museum of Art ,
221-555: Was commissioned by Queen Victoria to travel to St Petersburg and paint a picture of the marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh. Chevalier made London his base and was a continual exhibitor at the Academy from 1871 to 1887. He had one picture in the 1895 Academy but had practically given up painting by then. Chevalier died in London on 15 March 1902. Chevalier married Caroline Wilkie in 1855, a relative of Sir David Wilkie , who survived him. Chevalier
238-571: Was in command of the British forces in Australia. He arrived in Melbourne in January 1860. She married Sir Henry Barkly , the governor of Victoria , in 1860. He was 45 and she was his second wife; his first wife, Elizabeth Helen Timins, had died in Victoria in 1857 after childbirth. The wedding was reported as a "secret wedding" but it attracted 200–300 onlookers and they were married by Charles Perry ,
255-630: Was involved in the creation of The Ashes cricket trophy in 1883. It incorporated the Melbourne Bulletin in 1886, after which it became more involved with "society" news. A cartoon titled "BAIL-UP!" in 1900 was possibly the first published use of the Kelly Gang in a satirical context. It was acquired by The Melbourne Herald in 1924 and amalgamated with Table Talk in 1926. An annual, variously titled Punch Almanac , Melbourne Punch Almanack , Melbourne Punch's Office Almanack and similar,
272-476: Was published for a time. The publication was Folio size and initially contained 8 pages, increasing to 12 pages in 1878 and was 18 pages by 1891. It sold for sixpence . Mahood, Marguerite The Loaded Line 1973 Nicholas Chevalier Nicholas Chevalier (9 May 1828 – 15 March 1902) was a Russian-born artist who worked in Australia and New Zealand. Chevalier was born in St Petersburg , Russia ,
289-556: Was suddenly appointed as the governor of British Mauritius in the spring of 1863. This enabled her to record botanic specimens. She corresponded with Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker at Kew Gardens about the botanical specimens she was collecting. She told him in 1869 of specimens that had been sent to her from Singapore. In 1870, her husband became the first governor of the Cape of Good Hope . He collected botanical specimens and so did she. She and her step-daughter Emily Blanche Barkly recorded
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