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Add MS 15500, f 3
- Record Id:
- 040-003397670
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002087270
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056307532.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 15500, f 3
- Title:
- ‘A plan of Dusky Bay [Dusky Sound], new Zealand’ by Joseph Gilbert, surveyor, and Henry Roberts, draughtsman
- Scope & Content:
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Inset in the upper left is another chart. Two views are underneath the chart on the same sheet.Inset chart.
Title: ‘Pickersgills [Pickersgill] Harbour’ by Joseph Gilbert, surveyor, and Henry Roberts, draughtsman
Date: [Mar 1773-May 1773]
Scale: ‘A Scale of 200 Fathom.’ [=1¾ inches] (1:8,229)
Medium: Pen and Ink, with green wash and grey brush-work, on paper
The title as above is inscribed in ink in the upper left of the chart.
View A
Title: ‘A View of the South Entrance into Duskey Bay’, by Joseph Gilbert/Henry Roberts
Location: Duskey Bay [Dusky Sound], New Zealand
Date: [Mar-May 1773]
Medium: Grey Washes on paper.
The title as above is inscribed below in pen. Also inscribed is ‘Anchor Island’ on the left, ‘Nomans Island’ in the middle, and ‘Cape Land’ on the right, to indicate these points in the view.
View B
Title: ‘A View of the North Entrance into the Bay’, by Joseph Gilbert/Henry Roberts
Location: Duskey Bay [Dusky Sound], New Zealand
Date: [Mar-May 1773]
Medium: Grey Washes on paper.
The title as above is inscribed below in pen. Also inscribed is ‘North Point’ on the left, ‘Entry Island’ in the middle, and ‘Breaksea Island’ on the right, to indicate these points in the view.
Scale: ‘A Scale of three Leagues’ [= 4¼ inches] (1:154,504)
The title as above is inscribed in ink, possibly in a later hand, in the upper right. Also inscribed is ‘The true Situation of these Rocks is not well known’ in the upper right corner’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002087270
040-003397670 - 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 3 : ‘A plan of Dusky Bay [Dusky Sound], new Zealand’ by Joseph Gilbert, surveyor, and Henry Roberts, draughtsman - Hierarchy:
- 032-002087270[0003]/040-003397670
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 15500
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 2 maps, 2 drawings
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1773
- End Date:
- 1773
- Date Range:
- Mar 1773-May 1773
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: Pen and Ink, with green wash and grey brush-work, on paper
Dimensions: 534 x 365 mm
- Finding Aids:
- Andrew David, The Charts & Coastal Views of Captain Cook’s Voyages, Vol. 2 (1992) 2.55
- Publications:
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Reproduced in Smith, Bernard. European Vision and the South Pacific. 2nd edition. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1985, pl.40, where the draughtsmanship is attributed to Gilbert.
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. 83.
- Material Type:
- Maps and Plans
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Gilbert, Joseph, naval officer, 1732-1831
Roberts, Henry, Lieutenant, Royal Navy, 1756-1796,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000101217269,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/150644264