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51. Add MS 15500, f 21

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Title:
‘The Rocks of Martinvas [Ilhas Martin Vas] bearing WSW 2 or 3 Miles. Trinidada [Ilha da Trindade] W½S 9 or 10 Leagues’, by an unknown artist
Scope & Content:
Location: The Rocks of Martinvas [Ilhas Martim Vaz] and Trinidada [Ilha da Trindade], Brazil This view seems to be unconnected with Cook’s voyages. The title as above is inscribed in ink beneath the view in a later hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1845
Extent:
1 drawing

52. Add MS 15500, f 22

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Add MS 15500, f 22
Title:
A view, probably of Ilha da Trindade, by an unknown artist
Scope & Content:
Location: Probably Ilha da Trindade This view seems to be unconnected with Cook’s voyages. Inscribed on the back of the picture in pencil is ‘Island of Trinidad E.H.’
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1845
Extent:
1 drawing

53. Add MS 15507

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Add MS 15507
Title:
Drawings in pencil, of headlands, bays, and islands, by Alexander Buchan, and Herman Diedrich Spöring, as well as unidentified draughtsman.
Scope & Content:
Includes 69 drawings, mostly in pencil, with some pencil and wash, and one in watercolour, and one in gouache, depicting coastal landforms, headlands, and bays of Cook's first voyage (1768-1770), at Brazil, Chile, French Polynesia, Australia and New Zealand. Thirty-two of the artworks were exec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1768-1778
Extent:
69 drawings and 2 manuscripts

54. Add MS 15508, f 1

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Add MS 15508, f 1
Title:
'Necklaces of the inhabitants of Terra del Fuego', drawing by Alexander Buchan
Scope & Content:
Location: Terra del Fuego [Tierra del Fuego] Signed in pencil: ‘A. Buchan Pinxt’ (lower right). Title inscribed in ink in Banks’s hand on verso.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1769
Extent:
1 drawing

55. Add MS 15508, f 2

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Add MS 15508, f 2
Title:
'Bows and arrows from Terra del Fuego', drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
Location: Terra del Fuego [Tierra del Fuego] Title inscribed in pencil in Banks’s hand below drawing. Signed in pencil: ‘J. F. Miller del:’ (lower right).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1772
Extent:
1 drawing

56. Add MS 15508, f 3

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Add MS 15508, f 3
Title:
'Otaheite View at the Back of Point Venus towards Pithas Long House', drawing by Sydney Parkinson
Scope & Content:
Location: Otaheite [Tahiti] Title inscribed in pencil in Banks’s hand on mount below the sheet. Pencil annotation in a later hand, within framing lines, lower right: ‘drawn by S. Parkinson’. The view closely resembles ‘A View round the Point at the back of the Encampment, Tahiti’, sketch by H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1769
Extent:
1 drawing

57. Add MS 15508, f 4

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Add MS 15508, f 4
Title:
'Tree on One Tree Hill. Otaheite', drawing by John James Barralet
Scope & Content:
Location: Otaheite [Matavai Bay, Tahiti] Signed: ‘J. Barralet’ (on drawing below tree). Title inscribed in pencil on sheet below the drawing. Pencil inscription: ‘See pl. 2 in Hawksworth’ (below drawing lower right). Second version by Barralet of the original drawing by Sydney Parkinson (Bri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1772
Extent:
1 drawing

58. Add MS 15508, f 5

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Add MS 15508, f 5
Title:
'Fort Venus Otaheite', drawing by Charles Praval, after Herman Spöring
Scope & Content:
Location: Otaheite [Tahiti] Title inscribed in pencil, in Banks’s hand, on sheet below the drawing: ‘Fort Venus Otaheite’. Pencil inscription in a later hand: ‘Drawn by Lieut. J. Cook See Add. 7085.8’ (lower right). Attribution of drawing to Praval discussed in Joppien and Smith (1985-1987), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1771-Jul 1771
Extent:
1 drawing

59. Add MS 15508, f 6

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Add MS 15508, f 6
Title:
'Gorget from Otaheite', drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
Drawing of a breast gorget, or taumi from Tahiti. Signed and dated: ‘J. F. Miller del 1771’ (lower right). Title inscribed in Banks’s hand on sheet below drawing.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771
Extent:
1 drawing

60. Add MS 15508, f 7

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Add MS 15508, f 7
Title:
A breast-plate or gorget from Tahiti, drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
Location: Tahiti Drawing of a breast gorget, or taumi from Tahiti. Signed: ‘J. F. Miller del.’ (lower right). Title inscribed in Banks’s hand on sheet below drawing.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771
Extent:
1 drawing

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