IMAGE
[Wallis, Samuel] 1728-1795 :Duke of Yorks Island [27 July 1767]
- Date
- 1767
- By
- Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
- Reference
- B-116-011
- Description
Captain Samuel Wallis' ship the Dolphin showing the British flag, with the ship's small rowboat tied to the stern, and three Tahitian canoes, two with sails, one without, against a background of a mountainous bush-clad hills with coconut palms on low land to the right.
Duke of York Island was named by Captain Samuel Wallis when he discovered it on 27 July 1767. It is now called Moorea, its original Tahitian name.
Other Titles - Moorea, Society Islands
Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - King Georges Island [crossed out]. Duke of Yorks Island. [number] 12
Related images: A very similar wash drawing 'York Island', signed S Wallis lower left, is in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia. It is taken from a slightly more distant standpoint and contains only one canoe. Another is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, 'His Royal Highness the Duke of York's Island', a more distant view containing two canoes, and with the high hills lacking visible bush
The artist Samuel Wallis was Captain of the ship 'Dolphin' and the first European to encounter the Tuamotu Archipelago and the Society Islands, now French Polynesia, in 1767.
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Pen and ink and wash on laid paper, 291 x 405 mm
Provenance: Collection of A. H. Turnbull. Purchased with Wallis' log-book from London dealer Quaritch in 1912 for £250
- Additional description
a small worm-hole in the central sky area
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Ink drawings, Wash drawings, Works of art, Pen and ink and wash on laid paper, 291 x 405 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image, Watermark: A shield containing a fleur-de-lis, surmounted by a crown, above the letters GR
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