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Add MS 15508, f 5
- Record Id:
- 040-003395019
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002087280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056125863.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 15508, f 5
- Title:
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'Fort Venus Otaheite', drawing by Charles Praval, after Herman Spöring
- Scope & Content:
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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), vol. 1, p. 55-59.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002087280
040-003395019 - Is part of:
- Add MS 15508 : DRAWINGS, in Indian ink, illustrative of Capt. Cook's first voyage, 1768 -1770, chiefly relating to Otaheite and New Zealand, by…
Add MS 15508, f 5 : 'Fort Venus Otaheite', drawing by Charles Praval, after Herman Spöring - Hierarchy:
- 032-002087280[0005]/040-003395019
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 15508
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 drawing
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1771
- End Date:
- 1771
- Date Range:
- Jan 1771-Jul 1771
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: Pen and ink on paper
Dimensions:
Drawing within frame lines: 247 x 514 mm
Sheet: 356 x 540 mm
- Finding Aids:
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Rudiger Joppien and Bernard Smith, The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages (1985-1987), 1.23
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Praval, Charles, Artist, fl 1770-1789
- Places:
- Tahiti, Pacific Ocean