
The cartes-de-visite appear within the context of Irish immigration in The Australian People Second Edition 2001 Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, General editor: James Jupp.
See information about these convicts at Prisoner Pictures.

Prisoner James Sutherland, 1883
NLA Collection P1029/43
Sutherland's photograph by Thomas and John Nevin was taken at the Hobart Gaol on 29th May 1883, seven days before Sutherland's death by hanging for the crime of murder, according to notes on the verso. Sutherland was a local criminal, not a transported convict arriving at Port Arthur before 1853. See this entry for a full account of his short criminal career. These six cartes-de-visite of Tasmanian prisoners, or "convicts" as they are termed in heritage discourse, were all sourced as the work of commercial and police photographer Thomas J. Nevin in the 1870s-1880s from the collection held at the National Library of Tasmania.

Photographs of Tasmanian convicts 1870s by Thomas J. Nevin, published in The Australian People. page 20, Second Edition 2001 Cambridge University Press, Melbourne General editor: James Jupp.
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