Beaches - Pitcairn Island

Date: 1825 - 1835 - 1838 - 1836 - 1843

From: Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843].

By: Beechey, Frederick William (Capt), 1796-1856; Ales, active 1835; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842

Reference: A-318-035

Description: Shows two canoes full of figures, buffetted by waves close to the beach on Pitcairn Island. There are rocks in the foreground, and rocky cliffs lining the coast, with a high rocky point in the background. Plate 140 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist and Ales as the engraver. Based on a drawing by Frederick William Beechey Other Titles - Polynesie - Debarcadaire de l'ile Pitcairn Other Titles - Polynesia - Landing at Pitcairn Island Extended Title - From G L Domeny's "Oceania o quinta parte del mondo revista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia ...". Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-43. (Italian edition of his "Oceanie ...". Paris, Firmin Didot freres, 1835-36). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 140 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Ltd Winter Antique auction, 1997, lots 462, 463, 466, 468, and 470.

Date: 1820 - 1840

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Gothstrom & Magnusson (Firm); Beechey, Frederick William (Capt), 1796-1856

Reference: A-282-012

Description: Upper view: To the left, three standing and one fallen Easter Island statues, with a European artist and a companion and an Easter Islander to the right. A European ship is in the background. Lower view: Two European row boats pulling off from a rough rocky shore. High cliffs and some vegetation in the background. This view is a copy of an engraving after a pencil sketch by F. W. Beechey, Captain of H. M. S. Blossom, who visited Pitcairn in December 1825. The scene is at Bounty Bay, the only landing place on Pitcairn Island, with St Paul's Rocks in the background. Plate 178 from an unknown Swedish publication, probably a missionary journal. The upper image is redrawn from the engraving by Sainson, in Vol 1, opp. p.507 the lower from the same plate in Voyage pittoresque autour du monde by J. S. C. Dumont d'Urville (Paris, 1834-5). The Swedish language version of Voyage Pittoresque ... (held by the Library at 910.4 /P/DUM) is duodecimo size and has no illustrations. It was published between 1836 and 1840. The Library holds a related image to the view of Pitcairn, possibly the original watercolour for the print. See A-118-009 IRN 160825. Language - (translated from the original in French) Other Titles - Colossal statues on the island of Waihou, Easter Island; Landing beach at Pitcairn Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage pittoresque autour du monde. Paris, 1834-1835 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) 2 lithographs on 1 sheet. Physical Description: Lithographs 91 x 116 mm and 88 x 124 mm on sheet 276 x 230 mm Provenance: Purchased by the vendor in Stockholm in 1980 from a print dealer. Said to be illustrations from a missionary journal.

Date: 1825

By: Beechey, Frederick William (Capt), 1796-1856; Lysaght family; Atkinson family

Reference: A-118-009

Description: Grass, rocks and coconut palms in the right foreground, more palms and dramatic rock formations with cliffs (known as St Paul's Rocks) in the background. Two longboats each with five occupants tossed in the surf in the centre foreground. Very similar to a sketch by Captain F. W. Beechey used as the basis for an engraving in his "Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait. (London, 1831), Vol 1, opp. p. 96. The original pencil sketch is in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia (RNK 997/1). The Turnbull's watercolour is a view from a little further round Bounty Bay, but with the same rock formations in the background and two longboats tossed in the waves. It may be a variant version done by Beechey after the event, or may show the crew of H. M. S. Blossom being returned to their ship, rather than landing. Inscriptions: Wellington - inscribed on blue card, formerly part of the backing of the work. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 71 x 100 mm Provenance: Atkinson family, originally from the Lysaght family of Taranaki.

Date: 2004

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DX-022-087

Description: A woman getting off a boat at Pitcairn Island is advised by one of the locals not to lift her frock as she wades ashore. A lawyer is also leaving the boat. Relates to a high profile sexual abuse case on Pitcairn Island, and the resulting influx of journalists and legal professionals to the island. Extended Title - Welcome to Pitcairn. Quantity: 1 digital image(s) ..