Title

A chain gang, convicts going to work near Sydney, New South Wales

Date made

1842

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching, printed in black ink, from one plate

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower centre below image within plate-mark in black ink, 'A Chain Gang. / Convicts going to work nr,, Sidney [sic.] N.S. Wales.' Printed lower left within image in black ink, 'Edwd Backouse 1842.'

Edition information

print run unknown

Subject category

Australia, Art period: Colonial, New South Wales

Legacy id

203902