Cyprus mutiny and his last three companions arrived there. The mutineers were tried in London and two of them, George James Davis and William Watts, were hanged in that city at Execution Dock on 16 December 1830, the last men hanged for piracy in Britain. Swallow, and two others, were returned to Hobart, where another one named James Camm was hanged. Swallow died at the British maximum security facility of Port Arthur. The mutiny is the subject of the Australian folk song "Cyprus Brig". Simon Barnard’s book "Gaolbird: The True Story of William Swallow, Convict and Pirate", is a fictionalised account of
William Watts (engraver) Mayer, for Sir Robert Ainslie's "Views in Turkey in Europe and Asia" (1801). Seats of the nobility and gentry - no-nb digibok 2013122028003-73.jpg Attribution William Watts (engraver) William Watts (1752–1851) was an English line-engraver. The son of a master silk weaver in Moorfields, London, Watts was born early in 1752. He received his art training from Paul Sandby and Edward Rooker, and on Rooker's death in 1774 continued the "Copper-plate Magazine". Watts sold up at his house at Kemp's Row, Chelsea, London and went to Italy, reaching Naples in September 1786. After about a year he returned, and lived at