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61. Add MS 15508, f 14

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Title:
Scene in Tahiti, drawing by Tupaia
Scope & Content:
Location: Otaheite [Tahiti] Numbered ‘14’ (top right). Drawing by an artist previously identified as ‘The Artist of the Chief Mourner’, and attributed by Joppien and Smith to Joseph Banks, on account of the detailed depiction of plants (pandanus, breadfruit, banana, coconut trees and taro). No...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1769-Jul 1769
Extent:
1 drawing

62. Add MS 15508, f 15

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Title:
Portrait of an Indigenous Australian, drawing by Charles Praval
Scope & Content:
Location: Southeastern Australia Numbered ‘15’ (top right). Signed ‘CH. PRAVAL DEL.’ (lower left). Catalogued by Joppien and Smith as 'Portrait of an Australian Aborigine, drawing by Charles Praval'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1770-Jan 1771
Extent:
1 drawing

63. Add MS 15508, f 16

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Title:
Diagrammatic drawing of a marae: front elevation with forecourt drawn in plan, drawing by Tupaia
Scope & Content:
Location: [Tahiti] Side elevation of a marae. Numbered ‘16’ (top right). Joppien and Smith attribution of this and f. 17 (formerly f. 15) to Joseph Banks is discussed in The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages (1985-1987), 1, page 108. Glyndwr Williams, ‘Tupa’ia: Polynesian warrior, navigator, hig...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1769
Extent:
1 drawing

64. Add MS 15508, f 17

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Add MS 15508, f 17
Title:
Diagrammatic drawing of a marae: side elevation, drawing by Tupaia
Scope & Content:
Location: [Tahiti] Numbered ‘17’ (top right). Joppien and Smith attribution of this and f. 16 (formerly f. 14) to Joseph Banks is discussed in The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages (1985-1987), 1, page 108.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1769
Extent:
1 drawing

65. Add MS 15508, f 19

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Add MS 15508, f 19
Title:
'Dancing cap or Whow from Ulhietea without its feathers', drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
Location: Ulhietea [Rai'atea (French Polynesia)] Pencil inscriptions on sheet below the drawing: ‘Dancing cap or Whow from Ulhietea without its feathers’ (in Banks’s hand) and ‘by Miller’ (in a later hand). Numbered ‘19’ (top right).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771
Extent:
1 drawing

66. Add MS 15508, f 20

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Add MS 15508, f 20
Title:
'Dancing cap calld Whow from Ulietea', drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
Location: Ulietea [Rai'atea (French Polynesia)] Numbered ‘20’ (top right). Pencil inscriptions on sheet below the drawing: ‘Dancing cap calld Whow from Ulietea’ (in Banks’s hand) and ‘by Miller’ (in a later hand).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771
Extent:
1 drawing

67. Add MS 15508, f 21

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Add MS 15508, f 21
Title:
'View in New Zealand', drawing by John James Barralet
Scope & Content:
Location: New Zealand Numbered ‘21’ (top right). Pencil inscription: ‘View in New Zealand’. Pencil inscription: ‘By J. Barralet’. Based on drawing by Sydney Parkinson in British Library Add MS 23920 f. 41 (b).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1772
Extent:
1 drawing

68. Add MS 15508, f 22

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Title:
'Indian Fortification on the Island of Achei no Mauwe', drawing by John James Barralet
Scope & Content:
Location: [Motuarohia, Bay of Islands] Numbered ‘22’ (top right). Signed on drawing: ‘J. J. Barralet’ (lower right). Pencil inscription on sheet below drawing, Banks’s hand: ‘Indian Fortification on the Island of Achei no Mauwe’. Based on a sketch by Herman Diedrich Spöring, British Library...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1772
Extent:
1 drawing

69. Add MS 15508, f 23

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Add MS 15508, f 23
Title:
'Man of New Zealand', drawing by John James Barralet
Scope & Content:
Location: New Zealand Smaller version of Portrait of a New Zealand Man, by Sydney Parkinson, British Library Add MS 23920, f. 54 (a). Model for the engraving in John Hawkesworth, An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1772
Extent:
1 drawing

70. Add MS 15508, f 24

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Add MS 15508, f 24
Title:
'Carvd trunk, or box, New Zeland', drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
Location: New Zeland [New Zealand] Numbered ‘24’ (top right). Pencil inscription in Banks’s hand, on sheet, below drawing frame: ‘Carvd trunk, or box, New Zeland’. Pencil inscription in later hand: ‘pl 15 in Hawksworth’ (lower right). Dimensions in feet and inches inscribed in ink probably i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771-1772
Extent:
1 drawing

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