A chain gang, convicts going to work near Sidney [i.e. Sydney], New South Wales [picture] / Edward Backhouse
- Bib ID:
- 957252
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Backhouse, Edward, active 1842
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- London : Hamilton, Adams, 1843
- 1 print : etching ; 22 x 33.5 cm.
- Notes:
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- Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK3894.
- "Edwd Backhouse fs [?] 1842"--Lower left.
- Plate from: A narrative of a visit to the Australian colonies / by James Backhouse. London : Hamilton, Adams, 1843. facing pages 158.
- Caption: "A chain gang. Convicts going to work nr. Sidney N.S.Wales"
- Corrected title: "... etchings, on steel, ... at page 158, was inadvertently entitled, by the engraver, "A Chain Gang going to work, near Sidney, New South Wales," instead of "at Hobart Town, Van Diemens Land." ... originally drawn from the Hulk Chain Gang, at Hobart Town"--Reference: A narrative of a visit to the Australian colonies / James Backhouse. pages xvi-xvii.
- "[16 October 1833] Hulk Chain-gang ... employed in public works improvement on the side of Sulivans Cove ... etching copied from a work called 'Ross's Hobart Town Annual'"--Reference: A narrative of a visit to the Australian colonies / James Backhouse. pages 158.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-138467409
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Backhouse, James, 1794-1869. Narrative of a visit to the Australian colonies
- Also Titled:
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- Hulk chain gang going to work at Hobart Town, Van Diemens Land, ca. 1833
- Chain gang going to work at Hobart Town, Van Diemens Land, ca. 1833
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This belongs to the Backhouse, James, 1794-1869. A narrative of a visit to the Australian colonies.
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