A member of Joseph Banks party on Cook's first voyage (1768-1771), Buchan helped draw the islands and people that the ship visited, and also took some pen and water-colour drawings of fish, crabs and molluscs, before dying of an epileptic fit. Nothing is known about him previous to the voyage.
Buchan, Alexander, -1769
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Buchan, Alexander, d. 1769 :View of the Indians of Terra del Fuego, with a representati...
Date: 1784
By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Buchan, Alexander, -1769; Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785
Reference: A-111-036
Description: An open-fronted hut with men, women and children of Tierra del Fuego tending a fire in front Derived from engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi after Cipriani from original by Alexander Buchan on Cook's 1st voyage in Hawkesworth, J. An account of the voyages.. London, 1773. Pl. 1 Other Titles - Tierra del Fuego Extended Title - Published in Anderson, G W A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages. Pl. 13 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w ; 230 x 362 mm
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Parkinson, Sydney 1745-1771 :Mr Banks receiving a visit from the king of Duke of York's...
Date: 1780 - 1790
By: Warren, Charles Turner, 1762-1823; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Buchan, Alexander, -1769; Hogg and Company
Reference: A-111-054
Description: Joseph Banks in an encounter with a Papua New Guinean chief; the perforated rock near Tolaga Bay; a small settlement in Tierra del Fuego, visited by Cook in 1769 Published in: Anderson, G.W. A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world. Pl. 7. Other Titles - Baldwyn's new system of universal geography. Tolaga.Teierra [1] is derived from an engraving in: Henry, D. An historical account of all the voyages. London, 1773, Vol. 3. [2] is derived from an engraving by Newton after Parkinson in: Parkinson, S. A journal of a voyage. London, 1773, Pl. 20. [3] is derived from an engraving by Bartolozzi after a drawing by Buchan on Cook's 1st voyage in: Hawksworth, J. An account of the voyages. London, 1773, Pl. 1; with influence from Parkinson? (cf op. cit. Pl. 2). Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings, b&w, 3 on one sheet, 352 x 229 mm (plate-mark), on sheet 383 x 240 mm
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Various artists :[1. Wallis's interview with the Queen of Otaheite; 2. Terra del Fuego....
Date: 1767 - 1769 - 1820
From: [Various artists] :[Plates from All the voyages round the world] - [London ; Sir Richard Phillips & Co., 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.