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Title:
DRAWINGS, in Indian ink, illustrative of Capt. Cook's first voyage, 1768 -1770, chiefly relating to Otaheite and New Zealand, by A. Buchan, John F. Miller, and others.
Scope & Content:
John Frederic Miller: Drawings in Captain Cook's first voyage: 1768-1770. Captain James Cook: Drawings of headlands, etc, in his first voyage: 1768-1770. Alexander Buchan: Drawings of headlands, etc., in Capt. Cook's first voyage: 1768-1770. All the items after folios 1-9 in this volume were ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1768-1775
Extent:
1 item

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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

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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

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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

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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

6. Add MS 15508, f 5

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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

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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

8. Add MS 15508, f 7

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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

9. Add MS 15508, f 8

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Title:
'Carv’d ornament from Otaheite', drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
Location: Otaheite [Tahiti] Signed: ‘J. F. Miller del.’ (lower right). Title inscribed in pencil in Banks’s hand, on sheet below drawing.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771
Extent:
1 drawing

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Title:
'Otaheite: Dancing girl, and Chief mourner', drawing by Tupaia
Scope & Content:
Location: Otaheite [Tahiti] Pencil inscriptions: ‘Otaheite’ (top centre); ‘Dancing Girl’ and ‘Chief Mourner’ (top, above the drawn figures). Drawing by an artist previously identified as ‘The Artist of the Chief Mourner’, now recognised as Tupaia (Keith Vincent Smith, ‘Tupaia’s sketchbook’, Br...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1769-Aug 1769
Extent:
1 drawing