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Add MS 15500, f 17
- Record Id:
- 040-003397710
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002087270
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056315795.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 15500, f 17
- Title:
- A chart of Vanuatu by Joseph Gilbert, surveyor, and probably John Elliott, draughtsman
- Scope & Content:
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Four views are underneath the chart on the same sheet.
View A
Title: ‘The Entrance to Port Resolution bearing S.bE. one Mile’, by Joseph Gilbert/John Elliott
Location: Port Resolution, Tanna, Vanuatu
Date: [Jul-Aug 1774]
Medium: Pen and Ink, Wash, and Watercolour, on Paper.
The title as above is inscribed in ink below the view
View B
Title: ‘The Entrance to Port Sandwich bearing N.bW. ½ a mile’, by Joseph Gilbert/John Elliott
Location: Port Sandwich, Malakula, Vanuatu
Date: [Jul-Aug 1774]
Medium: Pen and Ink, Wash, and Watercolour, on Paper.
The title as above is inscribed in ink below the view
View C
Title: ‘Part of Sandwich Island [Efate], Montague [Emao] bearing SSE 2 miles’, by Joseph Gilbert/John Elliott
Location: Sandwich Island [Efate], Vanuatu
Date: [Jul-Aug 1774]
Medium: Pen and Ink, Wash, and Watercolour, on Paper.
The title as above is inscribed in ink below the view. ‘Montague’ is inscribed in ink underneath the island so named by Cook.
View D
Title: The islands of Emae, Makura, Mataso and Wot, by Joseph Gilbert/John Elliott
Location: The islands of Emae, Makura, Mataso and Wot, Vanuatu.
Date: [Jul-Aug 1774]
Medium: Pen and Ink, Wash, and Watercolour, on Paper.
Scale: 1o of Longitude = 4 inches (approx. 1:1,045,000 in 17½o S)
The draughtsmanship of this map has been attributed to John Elliott on the grounds of style by Andrew David in The Charts & Coastal Views of Captain Cook’s Voyages, Vol. 2 (1992).
Taken out for exhibition 26 March 1953, and returned 16 June 1953.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002087270
040-003397710 - 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 17 : A chart of Vanuatu by Joseph Gilbert, surveyor, and probably John Elliott, draughtsman - Hierarchy:
- 032-002087270[0017]/040-003397710
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 15500
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 map, 4 drawings
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1774
- End Date:
- 1774
- Date Range:
- Jul 1774-Aug 1774
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: Pen and Ink, Wash, and Watercolour, on Paper.
Dimensions: 501 x 656 mm
- Finding Aids:
- Andrew David, The Charts & Coastal Views of Captain Cook’s Voyages, Vol. 2 (1992) 2.207
- Publications:
- 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. 89.
- Material Type:
- Maps and Plans
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Elliott, John, of Elliott House near Ripon, naval officer, 1759-1834,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000084244467
Gilbert, Joseph, naval officer, 1732-1831