‘Transplanting of the Bread-Fruit-trees from Otaheite’, an engraving showing Captain William Bligh and crew receiving the breadfruit trees from a Tahitian chief for transportation to the British colonies in the West Indies. The subsequent voyage in 1789 aboard HMS Bounty became renown for the mutiny, twenty-five days into the journey. Bligh lived in Lambeth Road and was buried in the graveyard of St Mary-at-Lambeth in 1817. Engraved and painted by T. Gosse, published 1st September 1796.Digital Image of original etching.Ref: D2012\/5\/1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
‘Transplanting of the Bread-Fruit-trees from Otaheite’, an engraving showing Captain William Bligh and crew receiving the breadfruit trees from a Tahitian chief for transportation to the British colonies in the West Indies. The subsequent voyage in 1789 aboard HMS Bounty became renown for the mutiny, twenty-five days into the journey. Bligh lived in Lambeth Road […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,89,95,30,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-before-1850","category-bligh-william","category-etching","category-people","category-war-and-armed-forces"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n