On his right arm there was a tribute to a girl with the words “love ... was just one of 58,002 Victorian convicts whose tattoo descriptions we found as we data-mined the judicial archives.

On his right arm there was a tribute to a girl with the words "love to ... was just one of 58,002 Victorian convicts whose tattoo descriptions we found as we data-mined the judicial archives.

On his right arm there was a tribute to a girl with the words “love ... was just one of 57,990 Victorian convicts whose tattoo descriptions we found as we data-mined the judicial archives.

Wellcome Collection under CC BY SA-4.0 The 75,688 tattoos cataloged in the Digital Panopticon database of Victorian era convicts depict a dizzying array of subjects. A “habitual criminal ...

On his right arm there was a tribute to a girl with the words “love ... was just one of 58,002 Victorian convicts whose tattoo descriptions we found as we data-mined the judicial archives.