[Wallis, Samuel] 1728-1795 :[Boscawen's Island, Tafahi, Tonga. 13 August 1767]

[Wallis, Samuel] 1728-1795 :[Boscawen's Island, Tafahi, Tonga. 13 August 1767]
Date
1767
By
Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference
B-116-002
Description

Captain Samuel Wallis' ship the Dolphin and two Society Island canoes shown against a background of a bush-clad conical island. The water is still, the sky clear. A path winding up the island, past cultivations, is visible

Identification: the inscription on the reverse, 'Osnabruge Island' (Osnaburg or Mehetia) is incorrect. The island shown is Boscawen Island or Tafahi.

Other Titles - Osnaburg Island, Osnabruge, Mehetia [former title]

Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Queen Charlottes Island? June 9 1767 [in pencil, crossed out; below that also in pencil] Osnabruge Island.

The Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, holds a similar drawing 'Boscawens Island', signed S. Wallis lower right. The island's profile was also published as an engraving in Hawkesworth, J. Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere ... (London, 1773). Vol I, p. 491, and in later publications

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, 288 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, 288 x 406 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image, Watermark: J WHATMAN
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