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Add MS 15508, f 18
- Record Id:
- 040-003395036
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002087280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056128603.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 15508, f 18
- Title:
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'Chart of the Society Islands'
- Scope & Content:
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Location: Otaheite [Tahiti]
Possibly drawn by Joseph Banks, in collaboration with Tupaia.
Title inscribed in pencil: ‘Society Isles discovered by Lieut. J. Cook in 1769’ (upper right).
Pencil inscription on separate piece of paper formerly pasted on the folio below the chart, now at head of folio above the chart: ‘Drawn by Lieut. Jas. Cook?’.
Numbered ‘18’ (top right).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002087280
040-003395036 - 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 18 : Chart of the Society Islands - Hierarchy:
- 032-002087280[0018]/040-003395036
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 15508
- 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: Pencil and wash, on paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 275 x 745 mm
- Former Internal References:
- Add MS 15508, f 16
- Finding Aids:
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Andrew David, The Charts & Coastal Views of Captain Cook’s Voyages, Vol. 1 (1988) 1.134
- Publications:
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A M Lysaght, The Journal of Joseph Banks in the Endeavour (1980), p. 45.
Anne Di Piazza and Erik Pearthree, ‘A new reading of Tupaia’s chart’ in Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol. (2007) Vol. 116, No. 3 (Sept 2007), p. 322, figure 1.
- Exhibitions:
- Artist and Empire, Tate Britain, London, 16 November 2015 - 27 March 2016
- Material Type:
- Maps and Plans
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Banks, Joseph, 1st Baronet, botanist, naturalist and patron of science, 1743-1820
Cook, James, explorer and naval officer, 1728-1779,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122779981,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/31994819
Tupaia, Polynesian navigator, c 1725-1770