The Garland Grove was a 3-masted, square-sailed ship (or barque) that transported 371 women from 1840s London to years of penal servitude in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania).
Its woodcut image set on an angry sea, against a malevolent sky of swirling parallel lines, as foaming crests envelop its hull.
But for now… This is a nice generic ship woodcut, used and reused by printer John Pitts in Seven Dials during the 1830s.
