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Two naval officers and Tahitian girl in dancing dress

Two naval officers and Tahitian girl in dancing dress

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9WZMy5OY

Two naval officers and Tahitian girl in dancing dress

About this item

Full title

Two naval officers and Tahitian girl in dancing dress

Date

After 1780

Call Numbers

DL Pf 82

Record Identifier

9WZMy5OY

Reference Code

879082

Formats

Physical Description

Contents

1 watercolour - 19.8 x 15.6 cm

Other Descriptions

Level of description

Fonds

Access and use

Copying Conditions

Out of copyright

Please acknowledge: : Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales

Issue Copy

Digitised

More information

Alternative Titles

Full title

Two naval officers and Tahitian girl in dancing dress

Notes

General note

Copy print: DL Pf 82
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room

Signature / Inscriptions

The inscription in pen and ink below the painting has been almost erased: the ink inscription may read 'MJ'.
'B Halliday Cat 88 item 25' appears in pencil on the mount
'Cookes [i.e. Cook's] Voyages' in ink in the lower right hand corner of the mount

Date note

Undated: dated from Cook's third voyage (compared with Webber's watercolour, A Dance in Otaheite [DL PXX 2/f. 13] showing a Tahitian dancing costume)

Description source

Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010

Contextual Information

Source

Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

DL Pf 82

Record Identifier

9WZMy5OY

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Other Identifiers

Reference code

879082

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