Elizabeth Hudspeth, an artist in Van Dieman’s Land


Robert Stevens

Australiana, Vol 39 no 1, February 2017

The works of Elizabeth Hudspeth are largely unknown, like those of many early Australian women artists. Robert Stevens remedies this, and illustrates some of her works which have been rarely or never published nor seen. Her sketches of some early Tasmanian buildings, which have since been destroyed, may be the only record of them.

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