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Add MS 15508, f 9
- Record Id:
- 040-003395024
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002087280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056126853.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 15508, f 9
- Title:
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'Otaheite: Dancing girl, and Chief mourner', drawing by Tupaia
- Scope & Content:
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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’, British Library eJournal, 2005: http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2005articles/pdf/article10.pdf ).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002087280
040-003395024 - 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 9 : 'Otaheite: Dancing girl, and Chief mourner', drawing by Tupaia - Hierarchy:
- 032-002087280[0009]/040-003395024
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 15508
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 drawing
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1769
- End Date:
- 1769
- Date Range:
- Jun 1769-Aug 1769
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: Pencil and watercolour, on paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 279 x 394 mm
- Finding Aids:
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Rudiger Joppien and Bernard Smith, The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages (1985-1987), 1.51
- Publications:
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Reproduced in: Vanessa Smith, Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters (2010).
Neil Chambers, Endeavouring Banks: Exploring Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771 (2016), p. 122-123.
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Tupaia, Polynesian navigator, c 1725-1770
- Places:
- Tahiti, Pacific Ocean