IMAGE
Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :[A chief mourner of Tahiti. 1777?]
- Date
- 1777 - 1778
- Reference
- A-264-019-1
- Description
Frontal view of a standing male figure in ceremonial mourning dress including headgear and mask, with a clapper in his right hand, a shark-toothed club in his left.
Joppien / Smith number for this drawing is 3.112. There is a similar but more finished drawing in the British Library (Add. MS 15513, f.18). An engraved version appeared in Ellis' Narrative (1782) Vol 1, fp, p. 130 titled A man of Otaheitee in a mourning dress..
Other Titles - A man of Otaheite in a mourning dress. A priest in ceremonial mourning dress [former title]
Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 'See Cook's Voyage by Ellis' in ink.
Drawn on Cook's third circumnavigation
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Pencil, 311 x 191 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, Portraits, Pencil, 311 x 191 mm, Orientation: Vertical image, Watermark: Pro Patria with Britannia
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