Hobart Town chain gang.
Title
Date made
1829 – c.1831
Place made
Australia, Australia, Tasmania, Hobart View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching, printed in black ink, from one copper plate
Matrix size
11.4 x 33.8 cm (plate-mark)
Support
thin wove paper
Support size
14.4 x 35.8 cm (sheet)
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression as issued
Edition information
print run unknown
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed verso on mount upper centre in black pencil, '12/3/72 Similar engraving exhibited by Mr Ken Von Bibra at Battery Point Hall Hobart / written on this engraving was 'THIS IS NO OTHERWISE CURIOUS THAN AS A SPECIMEN / OF THE FIRST EFFORTS AT ENGRAVING IN VAN DIEMENS LAND' / 'SENT HOME FROM VAN DIEMENS LAND / 1831' / One other known copy is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney.'
Subject description
A group of convicts shackled with leg chains and carrying picks, shovels and mallets, are garded by soldiers carrying rifles as they walk along an unmade road in Hobart, Tasmania.
IRN
126563
Accession number
2003.31
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Meeting 1, 2003/2004 (2003-08-15)
Credit line
Purchased 2003
Subject category
Australia, Art period: Colonial, Tasmania
Country of context
Australia
Creators
Bruce, Charles. | (1807–1851) Australian | Scottish | Male | engraver
Last Updated
04 Jan 2013