Convicts,

Convicts in New Holland, wash drawing, 19.5 x 12.5 cm
By Felipe Bauza in 1793

What was life like for a convict in New South Wales?
Find out at an interactive site:

• Choose a convict
• What crimes did they commit?
• What work they had to do?
• What did they wear?
• How would they be punished if they didn’t obey the rules?
• What was their journey to Australia like?
• What the convicts did in their small amount of free time?

DRAWING: Felipe Bauza - drawings made on the Spanish Scientific Expedition to Australia and the Pacific in the ships Descubierta and Atrevida under the command of Alessandro Malaspina, 1789-94,  held at the State Library of New South Wales