Sketches of Australian Life and Scenery Complete in 12 Plates - Plate Nine: Our Convicts What We Do & What Becomes of Them


Sketches of Australian Life and Scenery Complete in 12 Plates

Plate Nine: Our Convicts What We Do & What Becomes of Them

Caption: The above represents a Hard labour gang in Tasmania, performing a species of work which used to be imposed on them some years since, it consisted of carrying bundles of shingles or wooden tiles.  They each man carried two of them, weighing twenty eight pounds a piece, the distance they had to walk generally averaged about thirty miles daily.  This inhuman labor is now abolished.

Artist: Loosely based on drawings by S.T. Gill, including some plates from The Australian sketchbook. 

Provenance: Sketches of Australian Life and Scenery Complete in 12 Plates
Contributor: Paul Jerrard & Son
Contributor: Messrs. Newbold & Co.
Date of Publication: ca. 1865
Published by: Paul Jerrard & Son for the proprietors Messrs. Newbold & Co.
Place of Publishing: London (170 Fleet Street)
Copyright status: This work is out of copyright
Note: The caption for this piece was retrieved from an original print for sale on Ebay.

Plate One: Sunday at the Diggings
Plate Two: The Lost Bushman or the Unfortunate Digger that Never Returned
Plate Three: A New Rush
Plate Four: A Concert on a New Rush or Gold Diggings in Australia
Plate Five: Bushrangers Waiting for the Mails in New South Wales
Plate Six: A Corrobory (sic), or Native Dance
Plate Seven: A Native Sepulchre or Aboriginal Mode of Burial
Plate Eight: Christmas on the Diggings or the Unwelcome Visitor Who Came Uninvited
Plate Nine: Our Convicts What We Do & What Becomes of Them
Plate Ten: The Way Her Majesty's Mails & The Public Protectors are Served in New South Wales
Plate Eleven: The New Chum's Arrival on a Gold Diggings
Plate Twelve: Prospecting for Gold or Rewarded at Last
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