Title:
[View of inhabited valley at Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]
Creator/Contributor:
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist (artist)
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1009--ffALB
Format:
drawing on paper: ink and wash
21.5 x 32 cm.
Content/Description:
Native village with two bamboo dwellings with slanted roofs set on stone foundations; expedition party members among native
men and women; dense tropical vegetation with several palm trees; high mountains in distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Signature (LR, in ink): G. Langsdorff ad nat(uram) delin(eavit). Handwritten (UL, in ink): Tab VI; (on verso,
in pencil): Die Ansicht eines beschützten Thales auf Nukahiwa/Siedlung in Nukahiwa/Kopfjäger [...?]. Ref. note: Langsdorff--German
edition: Volume I, Plate 10; text, p. 109; English edition: Volume I, Plate 9; text, p. 126. Inscriptions in German.
Subjects:
Discovery & exploration;
Dwellings;
Expeditions & surveys;
Indigenous peoples;
Manners & customs;
Oceania;
Settlements;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Landscapes;
Travel sketches;
Wash drawings