Prisoner James WYNNE [Wynn] 1875

The TMAG copy
This copy from T. J. Nevin's original glass negative was numbered "120" during removal from the QVMAG collection, Launceston in 1983 for display at the Port Arthur Heritage site for the PA Development Project. It was not returned to the QVMAG, deposited instead at the TMAG, Hobart. The phrase and date "Taken at Port Arthur 1874" was added verso in the early 1900s for exhibition and sale at John Watt Beattie's "Port Arthur Museum", 51 Murray St. Hobart,



Prisoner James Wynn 1875

Prisoner WYNNE, James
TMAG Ref: Q15592
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin, 1875

The NLA copy



NLA Catalogue
Part of collection: Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874.
Gunson Collection file 203/7/54.
Title from inscription on reverse of mount.
Inscription: "39"--On reverse.
Condition: Foxing.
Online: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-142914919
Subject:Wynne, James -- Portraits

POLICE RECORDS: James Wynn



James Wynne per Barossa 2, known to police as WYNN, was sentenced to five years at the Supreme Court Launceston on 26 March 1871 for housebreaking and robbery. He was photographed on discharge at the Municipal Police Office, Hobart Town Hall by government contractor T. J. Nevin in the week of 3 March 1875. He was 57 yrs old, 5 ft 9 ins tall, "Free in servitude" (FS).