IMAGE
Various artists :[1. Wallis's interview with the Queen of Otaheite; 2. Terra del Fuego. London, Sir Richard Phillips & Co., 1820]
- Date
- 1767 - 1769 - 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.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- [Various artists] :[Plates from All the voyages round the world] - [London ; Sir Richard Phillips & Co., 1820] / [Various artists] :[1. Wallis's interview with the Queen of Otaheite; 2. Terra del Fuego; 3. Bay of Oapoa in Ulietea; 4. A family of Dusky Bay. London ; Sir Richard Phillips & Co., 1820]
- Format
- 2 b&w art print(s) on one sheet, Works of art, Engravings, Engravings on sheet 180 x 104 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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