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Collection Item
Walloomoolloo [i.e. Woolloomooloo] The Seat of Jno Palmer Esqre Port Jackson1803
Signatures / Inscriptions: Titled beneath image. Signed & dated lower right "3 March 1803 Jno Bolger Pinxt"
Inscribed on reverse in later hand: "Done by one of the prisoners and kept as a curiosity".
General Note: John Bolger in fact arrived in Sydney in 1795 as a free man on board the Providence - see State Records of NSW Colonial Secretary Index 1788-1825