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Series 02: Sketches on H.M.S. Providence; including some sketches from later voyages on Thetis and Princess Charlotte, 1791-1811 / by George Tobin
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SAFE/PXA 563
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9yM6DW39
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Series 02: Sketches on H.M.S. Providence; including some sketches from later voyages on Thetis and Princess Charlotte, 1791-1811 / by George Tobin
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Series 02: Sketches on H.M.S. Providence; including some sketches from later voyages on Thetis and Princess Charlotte, 1791-1811 / by George Tobin
Full title
Date
1791-1811
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXA 563
Record Identifier
— Physical Description
Contents
120 watercolours (on 85 pages, in 1 album) - 35 x 26 cm
— Other Descriptions
Level of description
Series
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Access Conditions
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Issue Copy
Digitised
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— SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Contents
Suede leather album containing watercolours of various sizes.
i. "An Artist (W. Kirkland) was to have accompanied this Expedition, but he was left in ill health at Haslar Hospital - This obliged us all to work with our pencils as well as we were able - G. T. 1797"
ii. ..."Views, from the South Sea Voyages - on the Providence - 1791,2,3....
— ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Full title
Series 02: Sketches on H.M.S. Providence; including some sketches from later voyages on Thetis and Princess Charlotte, 1791-1811 / by George Tobin
— AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Author / Artists
— NOTES
General note
A number of the landscape watercolours of Tahiti are painted on paper watermarked 1811, which suggests that the landscape images at least, were painted many years after the events they depict. Versions of six of these images, probably much earlier, appear in another album owned by the Library at PXE 949. You can navigate to this album, "Naval water...
Signature / Inscriptions
Drawings titled below images
"GT" at lower right of most drawings
— CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
Source
Transferred from A 563
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Identifiers
— PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXA 563
Record Identifier
9yM6DW39
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446623
