Image 16: WFE Liardet, The first execution

This painting shows two Van Diemen's Land Aborigines in a cart on their way to be hanged. Part of a group of Aboriginal people from Tasmania that followed Chief Protector George Augustus Robinson to the mainland via Flinders Island, these two men were the first people to be hanged in Melbourne, in 1842. Some of the troopers in Dana's Native Police took part in their pursuit and capture the previous year, 1841.

WFE Liardet, The first execution, 1875. La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria.