‘Convicts letter writing at Cockatoo Island N.S.W.’, by Philip Doyne Vigors, 1849
Cockatoo Island is an island in Sydney Harbour which was used to house convicts that had committed another crime after arriving in Australia. The penal settlement on Cockatoo Island operated between 1839 and 1869. The artist has written ‘canary birds’ in the bottom right corner of this painting. Convicts were something called ‘canary birds’ because of their yellow uniforms.
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State Library of New South Wales a928881
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