Harden Sidney Melville (1824–1894UK General Register Office, 1894 registration district Edmonton, sub-district Hornsey, county of Middlesex. Volume no. 3a, page no. 144. Number 469, death certificate application number 11412490-4.) was an English

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and

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. He received a medal from the

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and had three paintings hung in the

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’s show between 1837 and 1841. He conducted the first official hydrographic survey of the north-east coast of

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in 1842–1846 on board the H.M.S Fly, which was under the command of Captain

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. He illustrated ''Curiosities of Savage Life'' by James Greenwood and several notable Australian works including

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’s official narrative of Fly’s voyage and

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’s Journal. He was the son of the engraver Henry William Melville (1792–1870) and Martha Harden. He died on 4 June 1894 and was buried in Camden on 8 June 1894. File:Melvill Autumn Scene c1880 002.jpg, Harden Sidney Melville, Autumn Scene. Oil on canvas, c1880. File:Melville Winter Scene c1880 001.jpg, Harden Sidney Melville, Winter Scene. Oil on canvas, c1880. File:Cannibal Cooking Pots 002.jpg, Cannibal Cooking Pots from Curiosities of Savage Life by James Greenwood, S.O. Beeton, 1863, page 281. File:Darnley Island Mask Dance 002.jpg, Darnley Island Mask Dance, from Curiosities of Savage Life by James Greenwood, S.O. Beeton, 1863, page 153.

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