IMAGE
Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :Girls of Huaheine [Oct 1777]
- Date
- 1777
- Reference
- A-264-027-1
- Description
A nearly frontal head and shoulders view of a young woman, her head resting on her left hand. She wears draped cloth around her shoulders
Joppien / Smith number for this drawing is 3.147. According to their text, this is likely to be the young woman who on Raiatea in Oct 1777 warned Captains Cook and Clerke that there was a plot to kill them.
Drawn on Cook's third circumnavigation
Other Titles - A portrait of a girl of Huaheine (Joppien / Smith title)
Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 'Girls of Huaheine' in ink. Also number in pencil top right 1.147 crossed out with 156 substituted
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Pencil on laid paper, 250 x 185 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 on laid paper, 250 x 185 mm, Orientation: Vertical image, Watermark: Pro Patria with Britannia
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