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Add MS 7085, f 11
- Record Id:
- 040-003394573
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003354378
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055625562.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 7085, f 11
- Title:
- 'A Chart of the Society Isles', by James Cook, surveyor, and Isaac Smith, draughtsman
- Scope & Content:
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Location: Society Islands
Date: [July – August 1769]
Scale: 1:218,880
Title inscribed in ink in frame, upper right: ‘A CHART OF THE SOCIETY ISLES IN THE SOUTH SEA BY LIEUTENANT I. COOK Commander of the ENDEAVOUR BARK discoverd the 16th of July 1769’.
Linear scale below title: ‘A Scale of Leagues’ (6 inches = 6 leagues).
Cook’s Admiralty MS refers to this chart in a marginal note (The National Archives ADM 55/40, folio 66: ‘See Chart No 11 & Plan No 14’).
The engraving by J. Cheevers is based on this (published in John Hawkesworth, An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere (1773) II, facing page 249).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003354378
040-003394573 - Is part of:
- Add MS 7085 : Charts, plans, views and drawings, taken on board H.M. bark Endeavour, in the years 1768, 1769 and 1770, by Lieut. James Cook, Commander
Add MS 7085, f 11 : 'A Chart of the Society Isles', by James Cook, surveyor, and Isaac Smith, draughtsman - Hierarchy:
- 032-003354378[0013]/040-003394573
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 7085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
1 map
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1769
- End Date:
- 1769
- Date Range:
- Jul 1769-Aug 1769
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: Pen and ink, and wash, with pencil squaring, on paper
Dimensions:
Chart frame: 403 x 653 mm
Sheet: 460 x 685 mm
- Finding Aids:
- Andrew David, The Charts & Coastal Views of Captain Cook’s Voyages, Vol. 1 (1988) 1.132
- Publications:
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Reproduced in R A Skelton, Charts and Views drawn by Cook and his Officers (1955), plate IX.
Reproduced in Harriet Parsons, ‘British–Tahitian collaborative drawing strategies on Cook’s Endeavour voyage’ in Indigenous intermediaries: new perspectives on exploration archives, ed. Shino Konishi et al. (2015), page 160.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Cook, James, explorer and naval officer, 1728-1779, (Surveyor)
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122779981,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/31994819
Smith, Isaac, Royal Navy officer, 1752-1831 (Draftsman) - Places:
- Society Islands, South Pacific Ocean