Norman Lindsay and the Lady Shore

The 'Lady Shore' was a convict transport sent out in 1797 with 66 female and two male convicts, and 76 soldiers, 12 wives and 10 children. She was seized by some of the soldiers in a mutiny off the coast of South America, and taken into the Spanish port of Montevideo, where she was declared a prize of war. The women were distributed among the Spanish colonists as servants, and they never arrived in NSW.

William Henry Traill, a journalist and politician, wrote an account of the mutiny which, given the sources available at the time, was exceptionally well researched. This was published (posthumously) in 1909 in 'The Lone Hand', a sister magazine of 'The Bulletin', and Norman Lindsay - better known for drawings in children's books (such as 'The Magic Pudding') and his engravings of busty, scantily-clad women - was commissioned to provide the accompanying illustrations.