English sea Captain. Wallis was born in 1728 near the Cornish village of Lanteglos by Camelford. He joined the navy as a midshipman, serving during the war between England and France of 1744-1749. In 1766 he was given command of H.M.S. Dolphin on a voyage to the Pacific. He sailed from Plymouth in August in company with the Swallow under the command of Philip Carteret, entering the Pacific through the Straits of Magellan in April 1767. Shortly thereafter the two ships parted, with Wallis sailing northwest through the Tuamotu Archipelago to reach Tahiti in June 1767. He named Tahiti King George III's Island. He spent five weeks there. After leaving Tahiti he sailed through the main island groups of the western Pacific before reaching the Mariana Islands in August 1767. He continued to Batavia, where many of the crew died from dysentery, then via the Cape of Good Hope to England, arriving in May 1768. He was able to pass on useful information to James Cook who was due to depart on his first Pacific voyage.
Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795
Wallis, Samuel 1728-1795 : Log books and sketchbook kept during his voyage around the w...
Date: 19 Jun 1766-10 Jun 1768
By: Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795
Reference: Micro-MS-0353
Description: The log consists of two volumes with original marbled wrappesr inside a vellum cover. It is in Wallis' own hand, and appears to be the first draft of his official log which he handed to the Admiralty (Adm.55/35, PRO Reel 1579).The first volume covers the period up to 27 July 1767 and describes his voyage from England via Madeira and Cape Verde Island to Patagonia, then through the Straits of Magellan and previously unexplored parts of the Pacific, ending with an account of his stay at Tahiti which he named King George the Third's Island. Stitched in at the end of the volume is the report of John Gore, mate of the Dolphin, on the expedition he led into the interior of Tahiti on 25 July. Also included in the volume are sketches of flying fish and 5 profiles of the Patagonian coast.The second volume covers the period from his departure from Tahiti to his arrival back in England via Batavia and the Cape of Good Hope. At the end of the volume is a short vocabulary of the Tahitian language. On the inside of the back cover is a watercolour drawing of the ground plan and elevation of the Queen's house at Tahiti, with explanatory caption, and also in the volume is a pencil drawing of the Dolphin at Tahiti. The sketchbook contains 20 wash drawings of a ship, presumably the Dolphin. One of the drawings is titled "in a swall off Oznaburg Island - June - 1767 - in the South Seas." Each sheet is signed in the lower right hand corner "SW 1766". The original journal acquired from Maggs Bros., September 1961 Relationship complexity - See second draft of the offical log held in the Manuscripts Section, Alexander Turnbull Library: qMS-2214 Arrangement: A note at the end of the microfilm indicates that the pages are out of order as are the reports, poems, pictures and profiles. This is because of the way the journal has been bound. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (3 vols, ca 230 pages).
Wallis, Samuel 1728-1795 : Log of HMS Dolphin (Partial transcript of qMS-2114)
Date: 20 Jun-28 Jul 1767 (1935)
By: Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795
Reference: qMS-2113
Description: Kept on the Dolphin during Wallis's voyage around the world on which Tahiti was discovered. This is the extract relating to Tahiti Quantity: 1 volume(s) (41 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; blue cloth)
Journal of Captain S Wallis and charts from the `Dolphin'
Date: 1776-1777
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
By: Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1560
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Woodhouse, Alice, 1883-1977 : Some manuscript material relative to South Pacific explor...
Date: 1937
By: Woodhouse, Alice, 1883-1977
Reference: qMS-2288
Description: Paper read to the Auckland meeting of the Australia and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 1937. Comments on the journals of Wallis, Cook and Banks Quantity: 1 volume(s) (19 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (35 cm; grey pam case)
Pacific exploration - Quiros, Wallis
Date: 1605-1606, 1767-1768
From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Centennial Publications Branch : Historical Atlas material
Reference: MS-Papers-0230-183
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Brown, James, fl 1758 : Certificate of discharge from HMS Prince of Orange
Date: 1758
By: Brown, James, active 1758
Reference: MS-Papers-3694
Description: Certificate of discharge dated 16 December 1758 Other - Among signatures is that of Captain Samuel Wallis, discoverer of Tahiti Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 piece). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, 1967
Various artists :[1. Wallis's interview with the Queen of Otaheite; 2. Terra del Fuego....
Date: 1767 - 1769 - 1820
From: [Various artists] :[Plates from All the voyages round the world] - [London ; Sir Richard Phillips & Co., 1820]
By: Buchan, Alexander, -1769; Rooker, Michael Angelo, 1743-1801
Reference: A-211-040/041
Description: The top image shows Captain Samuel Wallis with four officers on the left, meeting with a row of Tahitians on the right. The leading Tahitian figure is robed in white and carries a long palm frond. The image is after an engraving by MIchael Angelo Rooker The lower image, from a original by Alexander Buchan on Cook's first voyage, shows a family of Tierra del Fuegans sheltering around a fire in an arched shelter made of woven branches. Other Titles - Tierra Extended Title - Published in Samuel Prior's "All the voyages round the world" Quantity: 2 b&w art print(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 180 x 104 mm.
[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.
[Wallis, Samuel] 1728-1795 :[Lord Howe's Island or Maupihaa (Mopelia), Leeward Islands....
Date: 1767
By: Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: B-116-008
Description: Captain Samuel Wallis' ship the Dolphin near two Polynesian canoes with sails, shown between two atolls with coconut palms and other trees, at the Leeward Islands. Two further smaller canoes are in the background on both sides Identification: Drawing not titled by Wallis, and was unidentified as to location in the Library's collection until a comparison with Wallis' drawings in both the Mitchell Library, Sydney ('The Right Honbl. Lord Visc. Howes Island, lying in lat 16.46 S, long 154.13 W ...') and the National Library of Australia, Canberra ('Howe Island') showed this to be Wallis' Lord Howe Island, Maupihaa also known as Mopelia in the Leeward Islands, Society Islands, French Polynesia. Other Titles - Dolphin in French Polynesia. Sailing vessel and native boats in narrow waterway. 1767. [Former titles] Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - [no title. In pencil, a questionmark] ? [and in the centre, in pencil, a large] 8 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, 291 x 407 mm Provenance: Collection of A. H. Turnbull. Purchased with 10 other drawings and Wallis' log-book from London dealer Quaritch in 1912 for £250.
[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.
[Wallis, Samuel] 1728-1795 :[Osnaburg Island or Mehetia, Society Island. 17 July 1767]
Date: 1767
By: Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: B-116-001
Description: Captain Samuel Wallis' ship the Dolphin, leaning against wind and rain to the left, against a background of a volcanic rocky, bush-clad, conical island. There are three native canoes nearby, one with a sail The identification on the back 'Lord Howe's Island' (Maupiha in the Leeward Islands, north of Tahiti) is incorrect. Other Titles - Lord Howe's Island, Maupiha [former title] Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Whitsunday Island June 7 1767 [in pencil, crossed out. Beneath that, also in pencil] Lord Howe's Island. [Centre, also in pencil, a large] 1 Related images: a similar drawing in the National Library of Australia is titled 'Osnaburg Island'. In addition, the profile of this island, Osnaburg or Mehetia, was 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, 289 x 405 mm Provenance: Collection of A. H. Turnbull. Purchased with 10 other drawings and Wallis' log-book from London dealer Quaritch in 1912 for £250.
[Wallis, Samuel] 1728-1795 :[Sir Charles Saunders Island, Maiao, Society Islands. 27 Ju...
Date: 1767
By: Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: B-116-009
Description: Explorer Samuel Wallis' ship "Dolphin" against a background of a bush-clad volcanic island with two peaks, with coconut palms and three dwellings at the shore-line Related works: A more distant view is in the National Library of Australia, 'Saunders Island'. Inscriptions: the work's pencil inscription identifies it incorrectly Other Titles - Whitsunday Island [former title]. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Whitsunday Island [in pencil; also in centre, a large] 9 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash on laid paper, 289 x 407 mm Provenance: Collection of A. H. Turnbull. Purchased with 10 other drawings and Wallis' log-book from London dealer Quaritch in 1912 for £250.
Rooker, Michael Angelo, 1743-1801 :A representation of the attack on Captn. Wallis in t...
Date: 1784 - 1767
By: Rooker, Michael Angelo, 1743-1801
Reference: A-111-039
Description: The Dolphin close to hilly shores, with smoke from its guns on both sides, surrounded by many Tahitians in canoes. Some of the men in the canoes are standing, apparently hurling rocks at the ship. The canoe in the right foreground is a large ocean-going double-hulled canoe with a platform. A few men can also be seen on land The Dolphin arrived in Tahiti on 24 June 1767 Extended Title - Published in: Anderson, G W. A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages. P. 50. Derived from engraving by Rooker in Hawkesworth, J. An account of the voyages. London, 1773. Pl. 21. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, 230 x 347 mm on sheet 237 x 363 mm
Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795 :Veiw [sic] of Sir Charles Saunders Island ; Osnaburg Island ...
Date: 1773 - 1767 - 1784
By: Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795
Reference: A-111-048
Description: Five coastal profiles of Islands in Polynesia as recorded by Samuel Wallis in 1767. Sir Charles Saunders island, a long view, runs along the top, showing bush-clad hills, two peaks and coconut palms. Osnaburg island and Boscawen's Island are side-by-side on the next panel. A long view of Keppel's island is beneath that. Along the base is Wallis Island, also showing coconut trees. Published in: Anderson, G.W. A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages around the world. London, 1784, Pl 52. Sir Charles Saunders Island is Maiao, in French Polynesia's Society Islands. Boscawen's and Keppel's Islands, named by Wallis are Tafahi and Niuatoputapu, neighbouring island and part of the Niuatoputapu Group in Tonga. Osnaburg Island is Mehetia, Society Islands. Derived from engravings after drawings of coastal profiles on Capt. Samuel Wallis' voyage, 1766-1768, in: Hawkesworth, J. An account of the voyages, London, 1773. Vol. 1, facing p. 491. Other Titles - View Alexander Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w 225 x 348 mm
[Wallis, Samuel] 1728-1795 :[Prince William Henry's Islands or Nengonengo, Tuamotu Arch...
Date: 1767
By: Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: B-116-010
Description: A broadside view of Captain Samuel Wallis' ship the Dolphin and a Society Island canoe with a sail shown against a background of low landforms with coconut palms. The identity of this island is uncertain. Paraoa Island is a southern atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago Other Titles - Gloucester Island [former title] Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - Gloucester Island [in pencil. Also a large] 10, upside-down Related works: a view in the Mitchell Library Sydney, 'Prince William Henry's Island' is taken from a greater distance and combined with another view of the Duke of Cumberland's Island. 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, 289 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.
[Wallis, Samuel] 1728-1795 :Duke of Yorks Island [27 July 1767]
Date: 1767
By: Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: B-116-011
Description: Captain Samuel Wallis' ship the Dolphin showing the British flag, with the ship's small rowboat tied to the stern, and three Tahitian canoes, two with sails, one without, against a background of a mountainous bush-clad hills with coconut palms on low land to the right. Duke of York Island was named by Captain Samuel Wallis when he discovered it on 27 July 1767. It is now called Moorea, its original Tahitian name. Other Titles - Moorea, Society Islands Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - King Georges Island [crossed out]. Duke of Yorks Island. [number] 12 Related images: A very similar wash drawing 'York Island', signed S Wallis lower left, is in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia. It is taken from a slightly more distant standpoint and contains only one canoe. Another is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, 'His Royal Highness the Duke of York's Island', a more distant view containing two canoes, and with the high hills lacking visible bush 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 on laid paper, 291 x 405 mm Provenance: Collection of A. H. Turnbull. Purchased with Wallis' log-book from London dealer Quaritch in 1912 for £250
[Rooker, Michael Angelo], 1743-1801 :Wallis attacked at Otaheite [London, Sir Richard P...
Date: 1768 - 1820
From: [Various artists] :[Plates from All the voyages round the world] - [London ; Sir Richard Phillips & Co., 1820]
By: Rooker, Michael Angelo, 1743-1801
Reference: A-211-038
Description: The Dolphin close to hilly shores, with smoke from its guns on both sides, surrounded by many Tahitians in canoes. Some of the men in the canoes are standing, apparently hurling rocks at the ship. The canoe in the right foreground is a large ocean-going double-hulled canoe with a platform. A few men can also be seen on land. The Dolphin arrived at Tahiti in 1768 Extended Title - Published in Samuel Prior's "All the voyages round the world" Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, 78 x 117 mm on sheet 102 x 180 mm
[Wallis, Samuel] 1728-1795 :[Egmont Island, Vairaatea, Tuamotu, Society Islands. 10 Jun...
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.
[Wallis, Samuel] 1728-1795 :King George III Island. June 26 1767.
Date: 1767
By: Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: B-116-007
Description: Explorer Samuel Wallis' ship surrounded by 35 canoes at Matavai Bay, Tahiti. The drawing is dated two days after the arrival of the Dolphin at Matavai Bay, Tahiti, the first European visit to Tahiti. The ship's sails are furled. The canoes are of varying sizes and styles, some with a superstructure and at least one double-hulled. There is a large dwelling by the shore in the left foreground. Coconut palms line the shore and the tall hills behind are bush-clad. Tahiti was named King George III Island by Wallis, but reverted to its local name when Captain James Cook visited, two years later. Other Titles - Tahiti Inscriptions: Verso - top right - [in pencil] King George III Island June 26 1767. [Also in centre, in pencil, a large] 7 Related views: A similar view is in the National Library of Australia 'Otaheite or King Georges Island', signed lower left S Wallis. A much smaller number of canoes is shown and the ship is closer to the shore on the left. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash, 289 x 405 mm Provenance: Collection of A. H. Turnbull. Purchased with Wallis' log-book from London dealer Quaritch in 1912 for £250.
Hamilton, William 1751-1801 :Capt[ai]n Wallis, on his arrival at O'Taheiti, in conversa...
Date: 1767
By: Hamilton, William, 1751-1801; Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Hingston, William George Cornelius, 1802-1894
Reference: A-111-142
Description: Shows an incident during 1767 when Samuel Wallis captained the first European excursion to encounter Tahiti. Wallis is seated to the right, talking to Oberea, with four young Tahitian women behind them. On the left, three women are dancing, while one man stands and plays the flute and another is seated and playing a large drum. The event is taking place in an open-sided enclosure with pillars, and coconut palms and other trees are visible in the background Other Titles - Capt Wallis on his arrival in Tahiti ... 1782 Extended Title - From: Millar, George Henry. A New Complete & Universal system of Geography. London, Alexander Hogg, 1782 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on paper 190 x 276 mm (to plate-mark) on sheet 232 x 352 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Hingston Papers, MS Papers 43, folder 4 (Correspondence & Miscellaneous papers, 1831-1891), transferred 7 Nov. 1991 - - Transferred from papers of William George Cornelius Hingston, MS papers 43, folder 4.