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Record Id:

032-002087280

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032-002087280

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Add MS 15508

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 re-numbered after 2005. However, the former archive reference is also given in the catalogue record for each individual artwork, and the descriptions can be retrieved using either the current or the former reference.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts

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Otaheite', drawing by John James Barralet" },{ "id" : "040-003395019", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 5: 'Fort Venus Otaheite', drawing by Charles Praval, after Herman Spöring" },{ "id" : "040-003395021", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 6: 'Gorget from Otaheite', drawing by John Frederick Miller" },{ "id" : "040-003395022", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 7: A breast-plate or gorget from Tahiti, drawing by John Frederick Miller" },{ "id" : "040-003395023", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 8: 'Carv’d ornament from Otaheite', drawing by John Frederick Miller" },{ "id" : "040-003395024", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 9: 'Otaheite: Dancing girl, and Chief mourner', drawing by Tupaia" },{ "id" : "040-003395026", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 10: Indigenous Australians in bark canoes, drawing by Tupaia" },{ "id" : "040-003395027", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 11: Musicians of Tahiti, drawing by Tupaia" },{ "id" : "040-003395028", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 12: Maori trading a crayfish with Joseph Banks, drawing by Tupaia" },{ "id" : "040-003395029", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 13: Two dancing girls holding fans or rattles, drawing by Tupaia" },{ "id" : "040-003395030", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 14: Scene in Tahiti, drawing by Tupaia" },{ "id" : "040-003395031", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 15: Portrait of an Indigenous Australian, drawing by Charles Praval" },{ "id" : "040-003395032", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 16: Diagrammatic drawing of a marae: front elevation with forecourt drawn in plan, drawing by Tupaia" },{ "id" : "040-003395035", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 17: Diagrammatic drawing of a marae: side elevation, drawing by Tupaia" },{ "id" : "040-003395036", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 18: Chart of the Society Islands" },{ "id" : "040-003395038", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 19: 'Dancing cap or Whow from Ulhietea without its feathers', drawing by John Frederick Miller" },{ "id" : "040-003395039", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 20: 'Dancing cap calld Whow from Ulietea', drawing by John Frederick Miller" },{ "id" : "040-003395040", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 21: 'View in New Zealand', drawing by John James Barralet" },{ "id" : "040-003395041", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 22: 'Indian Fortification on the Island of Achei no Mauwe', drawing by John James Barralet" },{ "id" : "040-003397655", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 23: 'Man of New Zealand', drawing by John James Barralet" },{ "id" : "040-003397656", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 24: 'Carvd trunk, or box, New Zeland', drawing by John Frederick Miller" },{ "id" : "040-003397657", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 25: 'Patoo patoos or bludgeons from New Zeland', drawing by John Frederick Miller" },{ "id" : "040-003397659", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 26: 'Patoo patoo or bludgeon from New Zeland' drawing by John Frederick Miller" },{ "id" : "040-003397661", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 27: Fishing hooks from Tahiti and New Zealand, drawing by John Frederick Miller" },{ "id" : "040-003397662", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 28: Artefacts from Tahiti and New Zealand, drawing by John Frederick Miller" },{ "id" : "040-003397663", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 29: Fishing tackle from Tahiti and New Zealand, drawing by John Frederick Miller" },{ "id" : "040-003397664", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 30: Artefacts from Tahiti and New Zealand, drawing by John Frederick Miller" },{ "id" : "040-003397665", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 31: Paddles from New Zealand, Rurutu and Raiatea, drawing by John Frederick Miller" },{ "id" : "040-003397666", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 32: 'Tools of the South Sea Isles', drawing by John Frederick Miller" },{ "id" : "040-003397668", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 33: 'Tools from the South Sea Isles', drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring" },{ "id" : "040-003397673", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 34: 'Trumpet made of a shell New Zeland', drawing by Moses Griffith" },{ "id" : "040-003397676", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 35: 'Ornament worn round the neck, New Zealand', drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring" },{ "id" : "040-003397678", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 36: A Maori canoe: the stern, section and head, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring" },{ "id" : "040-003397680", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 37: Study of the stern of a Maori canoe, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring" },{ "id" : "040-003397682", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 38: Study of the head of a Maori canoe, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring" },{ "id" : "040-003397685", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 39: Study of the head of a Maori canoe, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring" },{ "id" : "040-003397687", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 40: Study of the head of a canoe and other carving details, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring" },{ "id" : "040-003397689", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 41: 'Specimens of tattooing', drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring" },{ "id" : "040-003397691", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 42: 'Specimen of tattooing', drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring" },{ "id" : "040-003397692", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 43: Studies of tattoo designs: buttock, torso and face designs, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring" },{ "id" : "040-003397694", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 44: Studies of tattoo designs: face, frontal view, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring" },{ "id" : "040-003397697", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 45: Studies of tattoo designs: face, profile view, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring" },{ "id" : "040-003397701", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 46: Studies of tattoo designs: half a face, front view, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring" },{ "id" : "040-003397702", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 47: Studies of tattoo designs: face, profile view and design detail, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring" },{ "id" : "040-003397703", "parent" : "032-002087280", "text" : "Add MS 15508, f 48: Studies of tattoo designs, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring" }]

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Record Type (Level):

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Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1768

End Date:

1775

Date Range:

1768-1775

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Physical Characteristics:

Large folio

Custodial History:

Sir Joseph Banks, Baronet: Volumes of drawings bequeathed by him to the British Museum.

Publications:

Keith Vincent Smith, ‘Tupaia’s Sketchbook’ in British Library Journal (2005)

Exhibitions:

Artist and Empire, Tate Britain, London, 16 November 2015 - 27 March 2016
Bicentenary of First Cook Voyage Exhibition, British Museum, 19 July 1968 - 27 October 1968
Cook and the Pacific, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 22 September 2018 - 10 February 2019
Indigenous Australia, British Museum, London, 23 April 2015 - 2 August 2015
Joseph Banks, Usher Gallery, Lincoln, 14 February 2014 - 11 May 2014
Oceania, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 29 September 2018 - 10 December 2018
Picturing places, (online), 27 April 2017-
Treasures Gallery, British Library, January 2013

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Notes:

Tupaia, Aborigines in Two Canoes -- J. F. Miller, Carved trunk or box, New Zealand -- Tupaia, A Dancing girl and Chief Mourner -- J. F. Miller, Images of Tahiti and New Zealand -- Tupaia, Musicians from the Society Islands -- J. F. Miller, Tools from the South Sea Isles -- Tupaia, A Scene in Tahiti. Exhibited: Joseph Banks, Usher Gallery, Lincoln, 14 February 2014 - 11 May 2014

Drawings of People at Botany Bay. Exhibited: Indigenous Australia, British Museum, London, 23 April 2015 - 2 August 2015

Tupaia, Society Islands 1769 -- Sydney Parkinson, Man of New Zealand. Exhibited: Artist and Empire, Tate Britain, London, 16 November 2015 - 27 March 2016

Longhouse and Canoes in Tahiti. Exhibited: Picturing places, (online), 27 April 2017-

Tupaia drawing, costume of the chief mourner. Exhibited: Oceania, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 29 September 2018 - 10 December 2018.

Tupaia, Australian Aboriginal Opele Bark Canoes -- Charles Praval, Portrait of an Australian Aboriginal Person. Exhibited: Cook and the Pacific, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 22 September - 10 February 2019.

Names:

Banks, Joseph, 1st Baronet, botanist, naturalist and patron of science, 1743-1820
Buchan, A-
Cook, James, explorer and naval officer, 1728-1779,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122779981,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/31994819
Miller, John Frederick, Artist, fl 1772-1796,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/7263884
Tupaia, Polynesian navigator, c 1725-1770

Subjects:

First voyage of James Cook (1768-1771)

Places:

New Zealand, Oceania
Tahiti, Pacific Ocean