Barrow, John (Sir), 1784-1848

Second Secretary of the British Admiralty; keen organizer of naval expeditions of exploration to the Arctic and Africa. Member of the Royal Geographical Society.

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[Batty, Robert, (Lieutenant-Colonel)], d 1848 :[View near Matavai Bay, Otaheite. Drawn ...

Date: 1779 - 1831

By: Batty, Robert, -1848; Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: B-097-002

Description: Tahitian houses with coconut and banana palms, hills in the background Proof before letterpress for illustration in Barrow, John. The eventful history of the mutiny and piractical seizure of H. M. S. Bounty. opp. p. 29. After an engraving by John Webber on James Cook's third voyage. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 69 x 105 mm (image) on sheet 300 x 433 mm

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Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Creek in Matavai Bay, Otaheite. Drawn and etched by Lieut. Col...

Date: 1779 - 1831

By: Batty, Robert, -1848; Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: B-097-003

Description: Creek with palm trees and high hills behind, copied from an engraving by John Webber from Captain Cook's third voyage, 1779. Proof before letterpress for an illustration in John Barrow's 'The eventful history of the mutiny and piractical seizure of H. M. S. Bounty., opposite p. 39. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 105 x 69 mm (image), 150 x 104 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 449 x 302 mm

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[Batty, Robert, (Lieutenant-Colonel)], d 1848 :[H. M. Ship Pandora in the act of founde...

Date: 1809 - 1831

By: Batty, Robert, -1848

Reference: B-097-005

Description: A three-masted ship about to go beneath the waves, with sailors climbing down ropes into life-boats below, and many already in the water. Proof before letterpress, for the illustration in Barrow, John. The eventful history of the mutiny and piratical seizure of H. M. S. Bounty. opp. p. 187. The Pandora under Captain Edwards, pursued the Bounty and its mutineers in 1792. The mutineers they had succeeded in capturing were shackled aboard the ship and went down with her when she foundered off the coast of Australia. The wreck was discovered in the 1980s. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 105 x 150 mm

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Larmor, Lloyd, Lubbock and Rutherford papers

Date: 1832-1936

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1939

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

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[Batty, Robert, (Lieutenant-Colonel)], d 1848 :[The open boat with Bligh and his compan...

Date: 1789 - 1831

By: Batty, Robert, -1848

Reference: B-097-004

Description: The open sea, tossing a small boat with a sail. The boat holds Captain Bligh and the fellow-sailors who remained loyal to him, after the mutiny aboard H. M. S. Bounty in 1789. Proof before letterpress, for the illustration in Barrow, John. The eventful history of the mutiny and piratical seizure of H. M. S. Bounty. opp. p. 99. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 70 x 104 mm (image), 106 x 148 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 300 x 430 mm

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[Batty, Robert, (Lieutenant-Colonel)], d 1848 :[George Young & his wife (Hannah Adams) ...

Date: 1831

By: Batty, Robert, -1848

Reference: B-097-001

Description: Portrait of a young half-cast couple with their baby, standing beneath a banana palm, with other banana palms and two other people as well as a high rock formation in the background. The couple are both descendants of Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian wives. Proof before letterpress, for the frontispiece illustration in Barrow, John. The eventful history of the mutiny and piratical seizure of H. M. S. Bounty. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 105 x 69 mm (image), 151 x 105 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 439 x 300 mm

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[Batty, Robert, (Lieutenant-Colonel)], d 1848 :[Residence of John Adams, Pitcairn Islan...

Date: 1831

By: Batty, Robert, -1848

Reference: B-097-006

Description: A two-storied wooden house with thatched roof in a clearing surrounded by coconut palms and other smaller houses, with several people (and pigs) engaged in activities in the clearing. Proof before letterpress, for illustration in Barrow, John. The eventful history of the mutiny and piratical seizure of H. M. S. Bounty. opp. p. 317 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 69 x 105 mm (image), 106 x 147 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 302 x 439 mm

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