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    [Pinnace and boat firing on native canoes with figure studies, ca. 1849]

    Call numbers

    SV*/NG-E/4

    Record identifier

    16AJkbxn

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    [Pinnace and boat firing on native canoes with figure studies, ca. 1849]

    Full title

    [Pinnace and boat firing on native canoes with figure studies, ca. 1849]

    Date

    ca. 1849

    Call Numbers

    SV*/NG-E/4

    Record Identifier

    16AJkbxn

    Formats

    Pictures and Drawings

    — Physical Description

    Contents

    Drawings - 28 x 38 cm. - 2 pencil drawings on one sheet

    — Other Descriptions

    Level of description

    Item

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    Subjects

    Subjects and topics

    New Guinea boats canoes guns (small arms) Pacific Islanders racial conflict vessels (watercraft) David Scott Mitchell Collection.

    More information

    — SCOPE AND CONTENTS

    Contents

    The primary sketch shows a boat [the Pinnace] with a cannon and several men on board. To the left of this vessel is another boat with a man firing at the native canoes. In the top left-hand corner are two studies of figures that appear on the main boat.
    The sketch on the reverse depicts four natives, possibly from New Guinean or the Louisiade Ar...

    — ALTERNATIVE TITLES

    Full title

    [Pinnace and boat firing on native canoes with figure studies, ca. 1849]

    — AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

    Author / Artists

    — NOTES

    General note

    Previously, this sketch was ascribed to O.W. Brierly, and the sketch on the reverse, "Ye natives finding ye Grapes are soure" to Thomas Henry Huxley. As the sketches are not signed, these attributions are difficult to substantiate.
    The inscription is a legend, with number "1" referring to the studies, and "2" to the sails.
    The sketch of the...

    Signature / Inscriptions

    Handwritten in pencil at lower centre of image, "1 .... Boats / 2. Loads" [or Louis i.e. Louisiade].
    Inscribed on the reverse, "Ye Native finding ye Grapes are soure".

    — CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION

    Source

    Bequeathed by D.S. Mitchell, 1907

    Exhibited in

    Upon a painted ocean. Sir Oswald Brierly

    Identifiers

    — PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS

    Call Numbers

    SV*/NG-E/4

    Record Identifier

    16AJkbxn

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    — OTHER IDENTIFIERS

    Reference code

    440190

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