• Title
  Isometrical view of the settlement, Norfolk Island [after 1847] / drawn by Don Docker, 16 June 1923
• Creator
  Don Docker
• Call number
  XV8/Norf I/1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1923
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  1336740
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - 57 x 90 cm - ink, watercolour
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  On 14 September 1844 the administrative control of penal colony Norfolk Island passed from New South Wales to Van Diemen's Land. In 1856 the Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the Bounty mutineers, were resettled on Norfolk Island by the British Government.
  
  Reference:
  Archives in Brief 122 - Norfolk Island. http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/ (accessed 17 July 2015)
• Scope and Content
  Watercolour and ink drawing of settlement on Norfolk Island ca 1847 showing roads and buildings. Includes map key for each building.
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years.
  Copyright holder:: Don Docker
  Approval for reproduction required:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Description source
  
  Title taken from drawing.
• General note
  
  Digital order no:c045850001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated on mount lower left 'Don Docker June 16 1923'. Inscribed in pencil on back of picture: 'Second Settlement. Date 1847+ fixed by the gate in no. 20, the New Gaol, called Gallows Gate. Unless there was a gate exactly similar before this, fixes the date 1847, or later, as Gallows Gate was built then. Information supplied by Mr Heath of Norfolk Island', 'Settlement Norfolk Island', 'Copied from this edge of picture Don Docker June 15 1923'.
• Date note
  
  Dated from inscription on mount.
• Subject
  Norfolk Island--Buildings, structures, etc--Pictorial works
  Norfolk Island--Pictorial works.
  Dwellings--Norfolk Island--Pictorial works
  Penal colonies--Australia.
  
• Topic
  drawings
  watercolours
  barracks
  houses
  islands
  penal settlements
  
• Place
  Norfolk Island
  
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