Isometrical view of the settlement, Norfolk Island [after 1847] / drawn by Don Docker, 16 June 1923
Description: 1 drawing: ink, watercolour; 57 x 90 cm. 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'.
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. Dated from inscription on mount. A zoomable version may be viewed here.
