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Published / Created:: [12 May 1794]
Call Number:: 794.05.12.50
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Two prostitutes sit weeping on a bank (left); two heavily shackled convicts stand beside them (right). A jailer with a pistol in his belt standing behind the women points sternly to a ship in the background. On a hill in the background a body hangs f...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):: Botany Bay (N.S.W.)
Subject (Topic):: Penal transportation, Gallows, Handguns, Prisoners, Prostitutes, Shackles, Ships, and British
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Black-eyed Sue and Sweet Poll of Plymouth, taking leave of their lovers who are going to Botany Bay [graphic].

Creator:: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Published / Created:: 1723 March 7.
Call Number:: LWL Mss File 143+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text
Abstract:: Manuscript signed by the Prime Minister, Robert Walpole ordering George Earl of Halifax to arrange payment to the merchant Jonathan Forward, for transporting 66 convicts from Newgate Jail to His Majesties plantations in America aboard the ship Anne, C...
Description:: In English.
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Halifax, George Montagu, Earl of, approximately 1684-1739. and Forward, Jonathan, 1680-1760.
Subject (Topic):: Criminals, Penal transportation, and Law and legislation
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Order authorizing payment to Jonathan Forward for transporting convicts to the American plantations : manuscript