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C1843
A Chain Gang. Convicts going to work nr. Sidney N.S. Wales.
Artist:
James Backhouse (1794 - 1869)
A rare early image of convicts. Very few surviving images of government convicts in the colonial period were made. Invariably the worst offending convicts were assigned to hard labour on road gangs. There exists an earlier engraving of this same … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
A Chain Gang. Convicts going to work nr. Sidney N.S. Wales.
Date:
C1843
Artist:
James Backhouse (1794 - 1869)
Condition:
In good condition, fold as issued.
Technique:
Image Size:
305mm
x 160mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1843
Description:
A rare early image of convicts. Very few surviving images of government convicts in the colonial period were made. Invariably the worst offending convicts were assigned to hard labour on road gangs. There exists an earlier engraving of this same subject made by Charles Bruce’s in C1831 that is also probably based on Backhouses’s original sketch.
Biography:
James Backhouse (1794-1869)
Backhouse was a sketcher, naturalist and Quaker missionary who extensively travelled the colony on foot and made a record of his journey in. He gave a valuable herbarium collected in Australia to the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. From, A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies.
