IMAGE
Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :A man of Unalaschka. W. Ellis fecit 1779
- Date
- 1779
- Reference
- A-264-041
- Description
Head and shoulders frontal portrait of a man, looking slightly to the left, with shoulder-length hair, a moustache, a small beard beneath the chin and a bone ornament beneath the lower lip. He is wearing a jacket with a red yoke trimmed with fur at the neck and with fur strips hanging from the shoulders of the sleeves
Joppien / Smith number for this drawing is 3.290l. Thought to be a study for the engraving in Ellis' Voyages (1782) A man of the island of Unalaschka, Vol II, fp 45, although the engraving is a full length portrait and the man lacks the bone lip ornament
Ellis, Vol II, p. 45 describes 'the people of Unalaschka ... the common dress of the men is a jacket, made of the skins of birds, the feathered side worn inwards; but the best jackets are painted red on the fore and hind part, as low as the shoulders and breast, and at the insertion of the sleeves along the seam, and on the body of the jacket, are fastened strips of fur in rows ... They also wear ... bones of various forms in their under-lip ...'
Other Titles - Unalaska
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title, signature and date in pencil. Also upper right, in another hand 'Ellis Voyages Vol 2 p. 45'
Drawn on Cook's third circumnavigation
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Pencil, ink & watercolour, 182 x 175 mm
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- 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 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Portraits, Pencil, ink & watercolour, 182 x 175 mm, Orientation: Vertical image, Watermark: Watermark of V G (trimmed but probably LVG = Lubertus van Gerrevink)
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