Kezia Hayter

  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
An employee of the Millbank Penitentiary, she was a passenger aboard the Rajah which sailed from Greenwich on 1841 transporting convicts to Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania). Hayter is believed to have been the instigator and supervisor of the The Rajah Quilt, which was created en route by the female convicts.
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Citations

  • McPhee, John (1995), 'Unknown Convict Artists’, Heritage: The National Women’s Art Book, Craftsman House, edited by Joan Kerr, p300.

See also

  • 'Heritage: Chapter 4, plate 144'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions

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