Whaling Station at Encounter Bay, and black snake drawn by Edward Snell on Christmas Day 1850. (Original sketches from Snell's diary held in State Library of Victoria's Australian Manuscripts Collection and published by that Library in 1988.)

Edward John Snell was an engineer, artist and adventurer and he recorded his travels in South Australia and Victoria in his diary, with candid, humorous descriptions and sketches. Snell arrived at Port Adelaide in 1849 aboard the Bolton (ship). In 1852 Snell travelled to the Victorian goldfields to try his luck, and recorded daily life at the diggings.

Bolton (ship)

Kostoglou, Parry and Justin McCarthy. Whaling and sealing sites in South Australia, compiled by Jeni Paay, Adelaide : State Heritage Branch, Dept. of Environment and Planning, 1991

Snell, Edward, The life and adventures of Edward Snell: the illustrated diary of an artist, engineer and adventurer in the Australian colonies 1849 to 1859 edited and introduced by Tom Griffiths with assistance from Alan Platt North Ryde, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson and The Library Council of Victoria, 1988

Kostoglou, Parry and Justin McCarthy. Whaling and sealing sites in South Australia , compiled by Jeni Paay, Adelaide : State Heritage Branch, Dept. of Environment and Planning, 1991

Strahan, Ronald, ed. The mammals of Australia : the national photographic index of Australian wildlife, Chatswood, N.S.W. : Reed Books : The Australian Museum, 1995

Kwan, Elizabeth. Living in South Australia: a social history , Netley, S. Aust.: South Australian Government Printer, 1987

Radford, R, Hylton, J. Australian colonial art : 1800-1900 Adelaide : Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1995

South Australian Whale Centre

SA Memory, Foundation of South Australia 1800-1851, The Frolic (by Snell)

SA Memory, Foundation of South Australia, Surveyor's Encampment, Yorke Peninsula (by Snell)

Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition: Search for Snell, E.J.

Edward Snell: writer and illustrator : SBS Gold website