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DIGHTON, Robert (after)
A Fleet of Transports under Convoy.
circa London, 1781. Handcoloured mezzotint, 139 x 112 mm.; trimmed to image, mounted, fine. A rare image of a group of convicts being led from Newgate Prison to the docks for transportation. The exaggerated facial features have been interpreted by a number of writers as denoting the group as Jewish. The image is one of very few contemporary images of convicts, and as a result is very well known. It was, for example, used as the cover illustration on Levi and Bergman's Australian Genesis: Jewish Convicts and Settlers 1788-1850, and appears also in Weidenhofer's The Convict years: Transportation and the penal system 1788-1868 (p. 8).
The image is based on a watercolour by the English artist Robert Dighton, whose well-known portrait of John Hunter was engraved as the frontispiece for his Historical Journal of Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, published in 1792. This convict scene was printed as a mezzotint by Carrington Bowles in 1781, on which this smaller version was presumably based though it is without imprint.
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