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After Robert Dighton (1757-1814)
A Fleet of Transports under Convoy
mezzotint, hand col. print; sheet 36 x 25.5 cm
Rex Nan Kivell Collection;
Pictorial Collection
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Dighton presents the convicts as ugly, evil characters, just as James Hardy Vaux’s Vocabulary of the Flash Language captured the speech of this same 'vulgar' and 'criminal' community and marked them as being beyond the pale of respectable society. (See stoty, page 3.)

 

July 2002 Volume XII Number 10

'LAGS' AND 'LASHES': THE VOCABULARY OF CONVICT AUSTRALIA, 1788-1850

Amanda Laugesen describes the evolution of convict terminology, as revealed through books in the Library’s Collection

INSPIRING MENTORS: VALRENE TWEEDIE AND LAUREL MARTYN

Michelle Potter describes the contribution of two great figures of Australian dance

THE BUSINESS OF SHOW BIZ: THE TALLIS COLLECTION

Richard Stone examines the career, and papers, of a notable theatrical entrepreneur

THE POLISH-AUSTRALIAN ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

Barry York gives an update from the Library’s Oral History Collection

FROM THE KIMBERLEY TO THE WORLD: MAGABALA BOOKS

Diana Giese visits Magabala Books in Broome, Western Australia

100TH BIRTHDAY BOOKSEARCH

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