IMAGE
[Wallis, Samuel] 1728-1795 :Wallis Island [16 August 1767]
- Date
- 1767
- By
- Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
- Reference
- B-116-004
- Description
Explorer Samuel Wallis' ship "Dolphin" and its rowboat, with several canoes at Wallis Island in the Wallis Islands group, South Pacific, named for the explorer and artist. One canoe has a sail. Coconut palms line the shore of a mountainous island. There is a smaller rocky island to the left
Inscriptions: Verso - top left - Wallis Island [in pencil; also centre, in pencil, a large] 4
Related views: Compare an almost identical version of this drawing 'Wallis Island' signed J Wallis lower left, in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia. Another view 'Wallis Island', showing another islet on the right, is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. The view was also engraved and published in Hawkesworth, J. Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere (London, 1773), Vol I, p 491. It was further reproduced in later publications.
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Ink & wash, 291 x 408 mm
Provenance: Collection of A. H. Turnbull. Purchased ten other drawings and with 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, Ink & wash, 291 x 408 mm, Watermark: J WHATMAN
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