Ethcing: "Black Eyed Sue & Sweet Poll, Taking Leave Of Their Lovers Who Are Going To Botany Bay"...

"Black-eyed Sue and Sweet Poll of Plymouth, taking leave of their lovers who are going to Botany Bay" [From the British Museum]... 

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  • Black-eyed Sue and Sweet Poll of Plymouth, taking leave of their lovers who are going to Botany Bay

• Description -

  Two prostitutes sit weeping on a bank (left); two heavily shackled convicts stand beside them (right). A jailer with a pistol in his belt standing behind the women points sternly to a ship in the background. On a hill in the background a body hangs from a tiny gibbet. For Botany Bay cf. BMSat 6992, &c. 12 May 1794
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