IMAGE
Tyerman, Daniel, 1773-1828 :[Bunaauia. Island of Tahiti 1823]
- Date
- 1823
- By
- Tyerman, Daniel, 1773-1828
- Reference
- A-263-002
- Description
Shows a mission station, a long low building with a verandah, beneath lofty mountains. There are coconut palms and other trees around the building. In the middle distance, a man carries bunches of coconuts on both ends of a pole on his shoulder
Original watercolour for an engraving illustrating Bennet and Tyerman's Journal of voyages and travels ... London, Snow, 1831, Vol 2, facing p 50
The settlement named in Bennet and Tyerman as Bunaauia is now known as Punaauia
Rev Daniel Tyerman was with the London Missionary Society when acting as a missionary in the Society Islands in the early 1820s
Other Titles - Punaauia
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour 210 x 277 mm
Provenance: Previouly estate of Miss Montgomery, Surrey, England
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour 210 x 277 mm
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