These cartes-de-visite of Tasmanian prisoners printed in an oval mount are held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart. They were originally held in the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, together with another three hundred or more 1870s mugshots taken at the Hobart Gaol by government contractor Thomas J. Nevin which were acquired by the QVMAG as part of the bequest from the estate of John Watt Beattie in the 1930s. When they were removed from Beattie’s collection and taken down to the Port Arthur prison heritage site for an exhibition as part of the Port Arthur Conservation Project in 1983, they were not returned to the QVMAG. They were deposited instead at the TMAG .
The QVMAG list (acquired here in 2005) showed a total of 199 mugshots, but only 72 were physically held at the QVMAG when the list was devised. A total of 127 mugshots were missing by 2005. Two mugshots in this sequence – numbers 198 and 200 of prisoners James Mullens and William Smith, each bearing verso Nevin’s government contractor Royal insignia studio stamp – were deposited at the State Library of NSW, Mitchell collection (SLNSW PBX 6274) ca. 1907, among a dozen more which do not bear the numbering on recto.
The Port Arthur Conservation Project 1983, Elspeth Wishart
Notes from the QVMAG catalogue Q1985: P: 0068
Cdv and uncut print of prisoner Bewley Tuck.
Fifty-six (56) cdvs of Tasmanian prisoners arraigned at the Supreme Court Hobart and photographed at the Hobart Gaol on incarceration and discharge in the 1870s, now held in the TMAG collection, are displayed here. For more information about each prisoner’s photograph, and for the prisoner’s police records on this site, search by his name.
See these articles:
Prisoner CHARLTON, George
TMAG Ref: Q15571
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner SMITH, Job alias CAMPBELL alias BRODIE
TMAG Ref: Q15572
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner SEWELL, William
TMAG Ref: Q15573
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner GLENN, James
TMAG Ref: Q15574
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner OWENS, Thomas
TMAG Ref: Q15575
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner RYAN, William
TMAG Ref: Q15576
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner GREGSON, John
TMAG Ref: Q15577
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner CAMPBELL, William as SMITH, Job
TMAG Ref: Q15578 see also TMAG Ref: Q15572
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner HARRISON. William
TMAG Ref: Q15579
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner DORAN, Alfred
TMAG Ref: Q15580
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner HESTER, Cornelius
TMAG Ref: Q15581
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner MORAN, John
TMAG Ref: Q15582
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner SMITH, Thomas
TMAG Ref: Q15583
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner DAWSON, William
TMAG Ref: Q15584
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner DUNN, John alias DEMPSEY
TMAG Ref: Q15585
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner DOWLING, John
TMAG Ref: Q15586
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner MERCHANT, James
TMAG Ref: Q15587
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner LEATHLEY, George
TMAG Ref: Q15588
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner BOOTH, Ephraim
TMAG Ref: Q15589
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner PRICE, William
TMAG Ref: Q15590
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner WEST, Robert
TMAG Ref: Q15591
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner WYNNE, James
TMAG Ref: Q15592
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner RYAN, Thomas
TMAG Ref: Q15593
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner SMITH, Henry
TMAG Ref: Q15594
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner BURTON, Phillip
TMAG Ref: Q15595
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner BLORE, Samuel
TMAG Ref: Q15596
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner ROGERS, James
TMAG Ref: Q15597
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner WALMSLEY, Joseph
TMAG Ref: Q15598
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner MAYNE, John
TMAG Ref: Q15599
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner CLABBY, Henry
TMAG Ref: Q15600
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner KELLOW, William
TMAG Ref: Q15601
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner GLEESON, Cornelius
TMAG Ref: Q15602
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner HARRISON, James
TMAG Ref: Q15603
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner BRADY, James
TMAG Ref: Q15604
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner MURPHY, Daniel
TMAG Ref: Q15605
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner KELLY, Stephen
TMAG Ref: Q15606
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner HICKS, Richard
TMAG Ref: Q15607
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner WOOD, Thomas
TMAG Ref: Q15608
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner McCULLUM, Hugh
TMAG Ref: Q15609
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner NESTOR, John
TMAG Ref: Q15610
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner GROWSETT, George
TMAG Ref: Q15611
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner WHITE, John
TMAG Ref: Q15612
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner FITZPATRICK, John
TMAG Ref: Q15613
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner MARTIN, James
TMAG Ref: Q15614
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner SAYER or SAWYER, William
TMAG Ref: Q15615
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner FISHER, George
TMAG Ref: Q15616
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner WILLIS, George
TMAG Ref: Q15617
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner PHILLIPS, Richard
TMAG Ref: Q15618
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner MALDEN, Samuel
TMAG Ref: Q15619
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner BRITTON or BRITTAIN, John
TMAG Ref: Q15620
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner CLARK, David
TMAG Ref: Q15621
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner WILLIAMS, John
TMAG Ref: Q15622
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner RUSSELL, William
TMAG Ref: Q15623
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner POPE, John per Flinders
TMAG Ref: Q15624
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner DAVIS, Daniel
TMAG Ref: Q15625
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Prisoner GLASSFORD, George or WHITE
TMAG Ref: Q15626
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Tasmanian photographer | Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923) 
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