Illawarra artist's drawing adds to extensive insight into early Indigenous man, Old Frying Pan

Illawarra artist's drawing adds to extensive insight into early Indigenous man, Old Frying Pan

John Skinner Prout’s 1844 graphite and watercolour of Old Frying Pan. Photo: From the British Museum Collection of J B Davis. I have long been grateful that the artist John Skinner Prout turned up in the Illawarra and produced so many local images in the early 1840s. I’d also wondered why he produced so many very early visual insights into the Illawarra when the handful of other visiting artists only produced one or two and then fled back to Syd…