IMAGE
[Wallis, Samuel] 1728-1795 :[Egmont Island, Vairaatea, Tuamotu, Society Islands. 10 June 1767]
- Date
- 1767
- By
- Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
- Reference
- B-116-006
- Description
Captain Samuel Wallis' ship the Dolphin, the ship's rowboat and a Society Island canoe with a sail, another without a sail, and a group of six canoes with masts drawn up on a beach to the right. The view is against a background of an atoll with coconut palms
Related views: A similar view of the Dolphin sailing past the islets with large canoes on the right, is in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales: 'The Earl of Egmont's Island'
Identification: the inscription 'Queen Charlotte's Island' on the back is incorrect. The view has been reidentified as Egmont Island or Vairaatea by comparison with the view in the Mitchell Library
Other Titles - Queen Charlotte's Island, Nukutavake [former title]
Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Egmont Island [in pencil, crossed out]. Queen Charlotte's Island. [Also in pencil, centre, a large] 6
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, 290 x 406 mm
Provenance: Collection of A. H. Turnbull. Purchased with 10 other drawings and Wallis' log-book from London dealer Quaritch in 1912 for £250.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Wash drawings, Pen and ink and wash, 290 x 406 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image, Watermark: J WHATMAN
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