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Add MS 15500, f 1

Record Id:

040-003397658

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002087270

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100056304178.0x000001

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 15500, f 1

Title:

‘Part of the southern Hemispher[e] showing the Resolutions track through the Pacific and southern ocean’ by Joseph Gilbert, surveyor, and an unidentified draughtsman

Scope & Content:

Inset in this chart are 3 coastal views.

View A (upper right)

Title: ‘Resolution Harbour. The Volcano [Mount Yasur] Bearing WBN’, by an unknown artist

Location: Tanna, Vanuatu

Medium: Pen and Ink, Wash, and Watercolour, on paper.

View B (lower left)

Title: ‘Thus Appears the Land over Frieslands Head in Latitude 59 South’, by an unknown artist

Location: Frieslands Head [Freezland Rock], near Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands

Medium: Pen and Ink, Wash, and Watercolour, on paper.

View C (lower right)

Title: ‘Sandwich Island’, by an unknown artist

Location: Sandwich Island [Efate], Vanuatu

Medium: Pen and Ink, Wash, and Watercolour, on paper.

Scale: 190^o of Longitude = 24 in. (approx. 1:30,035,000 in 30^o S)

Projection: The upper part of the chart, from the South Pole to 30^o South, is on a zenithal equidistant projection, and the lower part, from 30^o South to the Equator, is on a cylindrical equidistant, or Plate Carrée projection. The two parts are joined tangentially at the meridian of 180^o.

The title as above is inscribed in ink in the upper left. Also inscribed below the title is:‘All places which Captain Cook has visited and Explor’d In his Voyages I have shaded with Red. Their Latitude and Longitudes being well Determin’d. My Ideas, of southern lands yet unexplor’d, Are such as we discoverd in Latitude 59^o 00’ South (viz.) Rocky Mountains of tremendous height Each Cavity fill’d up with snow and Ice, the Tops were seen above the Clouds, under which seen frozen shores. I judge the Ice Islands are formed principally of snow, which drift up to a prodigious height till its weight immerge it in the water, and when separated from the land floats off to sea, we have seen them within the Polar Circle innumerable. Their Boundarys I have discrib’d in the Chart by a blue line without the Antarctic Circle from our first seeing to our leaving them.’

For another version of View A, see Add MS 15500, f 17 inset a.

For another version of View B, see Add MS 15500, f 13 inset a.

For another version of View C, without the Resolution in the foreground, see Add MS 15500, f 17 inset c.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002087270
040-003397658

Is part of:

Add MS 15500 : 22 charts and views, mostly taken during Captain James Cook's voyage in the Resolution through the Pacific and Southern Oceans

Add MS 15500, f 1 : ‘Part of the southern Hemispher[e] showing the Resolutions track through the Pacific and southern ocean’ by Joseph…

Hierarchy:

032-002087270[0001]/040-003397658

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 map, 3 drawings

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1772

End Date:

1775

Date Range:

Nov 1772-May 1775

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Medium: Pen and Ink, Wash, and Watercolour, on Paper.

Dimensions: 510 x 653 mm

Finding Aids:

Andrew David, The Charts & Coastal Views of Captain Cook’s Voyages, Vol. 2 (1992) 2.46

Publications:

Reproduced in Skelton R.A. (ed.) The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery; Charts & Views drawn by Cook and his Officers and reproduced from the original manuscripts. Cambridge, 1955 (Hakluyt Society). pl. XXVI.

Reproduced in David, A.C.F. ‘Captain Cook’s Second Voyage and his Chart of the Southern Hemisphere’, The Banks/Cook Portfolio. Hill House Publishers, Melbourne and London, 1990, p. 97.

Material Type:

Maps and Plans

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Gilbert, Joseph, naval officer, 1732-1831

Related Material:

This sheet is a fairer copy than the version held at the National Maritime Museum, G201:3/4 (on loan from the Home Office, A859).

Another version of View A is held at The National Archives, Adm 55/107, f 167.(b)

Another version of View B is held at The National Archives, Adm 55/107, f 205.(b)

Another version of View C, without the Resolution in the foreground, is held at The National Archives, Adm 55/107, f 107.(b)