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Travelled to California where he promoted and participated in 'Promenade The restoration of the Holy Trinity Church in Hull. During this period his most important commission was to carve the poppyheads and pew elbows for After his return toĮngland in 1839, George Peck exhibited the Model and Panorama in London and Liverpool.įor the next ten years he lived in his hometown of Hull, where he established a business as an 'Artist in Figure and The same year he began work on a Panorama and Model of Hobart Town. In 1837 he organised Australia's first Art Exhibition at theĪrgyle Rooms in Hobart. Successfully exhibited in Tasmania in 18. Promoted vocal and instrumentalĬoncerts, which often featured his own violin solos 'after the manner of Paganini'.Ĭreator and proprietor of the 'Artium Pecciano', a Mechanical and Picturesque Theatre of the Arts, which he Settled in Hobart, where heĪdvertised as a carver and gilder, and, in 1834, opened a Repository of the Arts. In 1833 he emigrated to the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land (now known as Tasmania), Australia. George Henry Peck was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England, in 1810. Of data that has come to light since it first appeared. Dealing primarily with the musician Peck's other career,Īs a fine arts worker and entrepreneur, it is re-presented here with only a few small emendations taking account This web article by Tasmanian reseacher and writer Robyn Lake was first published online in 2000 in Adventures in Cybersound. (an online resource toward the early history of music in colonial Australia):

Robyn Lake, 'George Peck's Theatre of Arts', in Graeme Skinner (ed.), Australharmony Monday 13 September 2021 7:19 George Peck's Theatre of the Arts

Levy Sheet Music Collection, Johns Hopkins University.

California Digital Newspaper Collection.

Roud Folk Song Index and Broadside Index (VWML).

Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Historic Dance and Tune Books.

What's the score Bodleian (find in Bodleian digital).

National Library of Scotland English ballads online.

National Library of Scotland Special collections of printed music.Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe.John Meredith folklore field recordings 1953-61 (NLA).Humming a diff'rent tune (old songbooks, music history & more) blogspot.

#Harrington piano for sale hardman peck archive

Digital Archive of Early Australian Music.

Australian Variety Theatre Archive 1850-1930.

New South Wales Colonial Secretary's Papers 1788-1856.

Australian periodical publications 1840-45.

Sydney Living Museums Internet Archive.

James Waller (1819-1871), musical amateur, and family.

Wallace in Dublin and Sydney, and Mary Pye's music book.

Harry Parsons and his Curtis descendents.

Maria and Bessie Gray and The stockman's last bed (1846).

Music at the Centennial Exhibition (1888).

Broadwood pianos in early colonial Australia.

Organisations, venues, events, &c., register A-Z.

Checklist is Australian sheet music prints 1835-c.1850.

Chronicle of music from earliest contacts to 1800.

Checklist of Indigenous song and dance documentation to end of 1840.

Checklist of Indigenous song transcriptions.