IMAGE
Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :Tonga taboo or New Amsterdam, Isle S. Seas. [June or July 1777]
- Date
- 1777
- Reference
- A-264-009-1
- Description
A standing portrait of a young woman, with shoulder-length hair, a necklace, bare breasted and draped around the waist.
Joppien / Smith number for this drawing is 3.63
Detailed catalogue prepared by the South Sea Library London, accompanies drawings in box A-264
Drawn on Cook's third circumnavigation.
Other Titles - A young woman of Tongatapu
Inscriptions: Recto - above image - title in ink. Also Tonga-taboo in pencil above the woman's head
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Pencil and ink on laid paper, 263 x 190 mm
Provenance: Astley family; sold 1974
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :[A collection of drawings made by William Ellis on H.M.S. Discovery and Resolution during Captain Cook's third voyage to the Pacific 1776-1780] / Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :[A collection of drawings made by William Ellis on H.M.S. Discovery and Resolution during Captain Cook's third voyage to the Pacific 1776-1780]
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Pencil works, Pencil and ink on laid paper, 263 x 190 mm, Orientation: Vertical image, Watermark: GR under a crown, surrounded by a wreath in a circle
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