Sextant

Date: 1887

From: Pritchett, Robert Taylor, 1823-1907 :Sketches for Lady Brassey's `Last Voyage'. 1886-1887.

By: Pritchett, Robert Taylor, 1823-1907

Reference: E-022-q-025

Description: A scene aboard the yacht Sunbeam in stormy weather, with two men looking through sextants Published as a chromolithograph with title Bad weather. West coast of Australia, in The last voyage. Annie Brassey, 1887, opposite page 226 Extended Title - From his Sketches for Lady Brassey's "Last voyage". Inscriptions: In accompanying list, in pencil in the artist's hand 'Shooting the sun. No title' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 305 x 207 mm.

Date: 1858 - 1886

By: Ainsley, Thomas L, active 1858-1886; Hall, George Patterson, 1875-1958

Reference: Curios-037-003

Description: Sextant with blackened brass frame and silver inlaid brass scale, in its mahogany carry case with metal handles and clasps. Inscriptions: [On wooden tab inside lid]: Capt Hall Quantity: 2 curio(s). Physical Description: Sextant in hinged wooden box, 230 x 257 x 123 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane auction, 2010 Material may have come from J E Hunt, Oturoa Rd, Levin Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive; material transferred to other sections from there.

Date: 1779 - 1794

From: Discoveries in the northern hemisphere. Cook's voyages in the years 1776, 77, 78, 79, 80. Plates II

By: J Thane (Firm); Loutherbourg, Philippe Jacques de, 1740-1812; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; Webber, John, 1751-1793; Wouvermann, active 1794

Reference: PUBL-0229-2-163

Description: An allegorical elevation of the deceased Captain James Cook. Cook is floating above the scene of his death, Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, his hat in his right hand. On his right is Britannia and on his left the winged figure of Fame with a trumpet. Fame is crowning Cook with a laurel wreath. Below are the cliffs of Kealakekua Bay with smoke from the guns of the seamen in small boats offshore, while a fighting group is just visible onshore to the left. The Resolution and Discovery (Cook's ships on his third voyage) are standing offshore to the right. Designed by John Webber, artist on Cook's last voyage, and de Loutherbourg for the stage spectacle of 'Omai or a trip round the world'. The final scene of this production required the allegorical elevation of Cook as a hero. It was published eight months after Webber's death. Mr George Baker, referred to in the title of the work, was a friend of Webber's and had a large collection of his drawings as well as related engravings. See Joppien and Smith: The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages, vol 3, p. 200-201. This copy is a proof before lettering. The final printed version includes the wording of the title below the image. The Library also has an earlier proof before lettering in the Drawings, Paintings and Prints collection, reference number B-085-007. The earlier version (B-085-007) lacks the rays of sunshine streaming out from the cloud above Fame, and has Cook holding his hat, rather than a sextant in his right hand. In B-085-007 the lines indicating the sky on the far right above the two ships end abruptly; in this final version the lines have been softened. The Library has a negative of the final version at 1/2-016988-F and it is reproduced in Joppien & Smith, op. cit, p. 201. Other Titles - Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii Wouvermann Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - outside plate mark. Pencilled 163, written by the Library Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 265 x 219 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 445 x 294 mm (irregular) Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull?

Date: 1779 - 1794

From: Discoveries in the northern hemisphere. Cook's voyages in the years 1776, 77, 78, 79, 80. Plates II

By: J Thane (Firm); Loutherbourg, Philippe Jacques de, 1740-1812; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; Webber, John, 1751-1793; Wouvermann, active 1794

Reference: PUBL-0229-2-164

Description: An allegorical elevation of the deceased Captain James Cook. Cook is floating above the scene of his death, Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, his hat in his right hand. On his right is Britannia and on his left the winged figure of Fame with a trumpet. Fame is crowning Cook with a laurel wreath. Below are the cliffs of Kealakekua Bay with smoke from the guns of the seamen in small boats offshore, while a fighting group is just visible onshore to the left. The Resolution and Discovery (Cook's ships on his third voyage) are standing offshore to the right. Designed by John Webber, artist on Cook's last voyage, and de Loutherbourg for the stage spectacle of 'Omai or a trip round the world'. The final scene of this production required the allegorical elevation of Cook as a hero. It was published eight months after Webber's death. Mr George Baker, referred to in the title of the work, was a friend of Webber's and had a large collection of his drawings as well as related engravings. See Joppien and Smith: The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages, vol 3, p. 200-201. This copy includes the lettering of the title below the image. The Library also has an earlier proof before lettering on the previous page of this volume, and a still earlier proof before lettering in the Drawings, Paintings and Prints collection, reference number B-085-007. The earliest version (B-085-007) lacks the rays of sunshine streaming out from the cloud above Fame, and has Cook holding his hat, rather than a sextant in his right hand. In B-085-007 the lines indicating the sky on the far right above the two ships end abruptly; in this final version the lines have been softened. The Library has a negative of the final version with lettering at 1/2-016988-F and it is reproduced in Joppien & Smith, op. cit, p. 201. Other Titles - Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii Wouvermann Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - outside plate mark. Pencilled 163, written by the Library Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 265 x 219 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 445 x 294 mm (irregular) Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull?

Date: 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-13893-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: Sep 1939

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-11544-G

Description: Photograph taken by Leo White Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1779 - 1794

By: Loutherbourg, Philippe Jacques de, 1740-1812; Webber, John, 1751-1793; Wouvermann, active 1794; J Thane (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-085-007

Description: An allegorical elevation of the deceased Captain James Cook. Cook is floating above the scene of his death, Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, his hat in his right hand. On his right is Britannia and on his left the winged figure of Fame with a trumpet. Fame is crowning Cook with a laurel wreath. Below are the cliffs of Kealakekua Bay with smoke from the guns of the seamen in small boats offshore, while a fighting group is just visible onshore to the left. The Resolution and Discovery (Cook's ships on his third voyage) are standing offshore to the right. Designed by John Webber, artist on Cook's last voyage, and de Loutherbourg for the stage spectacle of 'Omai or a trip round the world'. The final scene of this production required the allegorical elevation of Cook as a hero. It was published eight months after Webber's death. Mr George Baker, referred to in the title of the work, was a friend of Webber's and had a large collection of his drawings as well as related engravings. See Joppien and Smith: The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages, vol 3, p. 200-201. The Library's copy is a proof before lettering. The final printed version includes the wording of the title below the image and other changes, most notably rays of sunshine streaming out from the cloud above Fame. Cook has a sextant in his right hand, rather than his hat. In the proof the lines indicating the sky on the far right above the two ships end abruptly; in the final version the lines have been softened. The Library has a negative of the final version at 1/2-016988-F and it is reproduced in Joppien & Smith, op. cit, p. 201. The Library also has a copy of the final version amongst uncatalogued engravings bound into a volume of prints relating to Cook's voyages in the Special Printed Collection. Other Titles - Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii Wouvermann Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Apotheosis of Cook Wouvermann ?fecit [last word illegible; the whole inscription is in pencil in the hand of Alexander Turnbull over faint sepia ink]. 10/- [i.e. ten shillings, the price of this print] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 265 x 219 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 445 x 294 mm (irregular) Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull.

Date: 1777

From: 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]

Reference: A-264-008-1

Description: Shows Cook's sailors bartering with Tongans in a coconut grove, with other trees and two thatched dwellings to the right. On the left, a sailor is looking through Cook's sextant, which is on top of a barrel. There is a stream with more coconut trees to the left. A Marine is standing in the centre of a group of seated Tongans guarding a hut assigned to Cook and his men. Joppien / Smith number for this drawing is 3.40 Ellis's text states: "The next day, (May 3d) the astronomers tents, instruments, &c were got on shore, together with the coopers, the empty casks, &c and the marines. The chief of the island furnished us with a large hut for our reception on shore, in the front of which the market was held; a line was drawn between the natives and us, at some distance from the hut, to prevent their crowding too near, and none of them were permitted to come within it. We were abundantly supplied with hogs, fowls, yams, plantains, breadfruit and coconuts, and short fared sumptiously every day". (Ellis, 1782, I, 59-60). Other Titles - Anamooka, Nomuka [Friendly Islands or Tonga]. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - title in ink, including the statement "See Ellis's Voyage vol., 1, p. 59." Drawn on Cook's third circumnavigation Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on laid paper 192 x 310 mm Provenance: Astley family; sold 1974.

Date: 1845 - 1915

From: John Player & Sons Ltd: Polar exploration; a series of 25 issued by the John Player & Sons Branch of the Imperial Tobacco Co. (of Great Britain & Ireland) Ltd., Nottingham), [1915].

Reference: Eph-A-PCC-1915-01-12

Description: Card shows an illustration of various pieces of equipment used in Sir John Franklin's expedition: sextant, naval flag, paddle, arrows, rifle, etc. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 69 x 38 mm.