Title:
[View of St. George Island, Alaska]
Creator/Contributor:
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist (artist)
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1016--ffALB
Format:
drawing on paper: wash
22.3 x 28.4 cm.
Content/Description:
Island with sheer rock cliffs seen across water; three-masted sailing ship to left; other ships in distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in ink): Ansicht der Insel St. George; (LR, in ink): Dessiné par G. de Langsdorff. Handwritten
(L to R below image): no. 76, no. 79, no. 84, so. 62, so. 64; (UR, in ink): IX; (on verso, in pencil): Langsdorff... Ansicht
der Insel St. George. Ref. note: Langsdorff--German ed., Vol II, Plate I; text, p. 26; not in English edition. Inscriptions
in German.
Subjects:
Alaska;
Alaska;
Discovery & exploration;
Expeditions & surveys;
Northwest, Pacific;
Vessels;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Marines (Visual works);
Travel sketches;
Wash drawings