Title:
[Establishment of Russian American company at Norfolk Sound, Alaska]
Creator/Contributor:
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist (artist)
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1019--ffALB
Format:
drawing on paper: wash
23.1 x 28.6 cm.
Content/Description:
Fort on a hill, with log cabins below, and encircling small harbor; three sailing ships on bay; mountains in distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in pencil): N[ummer] Ansicht des Etablissements in Norfolk-Sound; (LR, in ink): dess. par
G. de Langsdorff; (UR, in ink): 4; (on verso, in pencil): Langsdorff... Ansicht des Etablissements Companie in Norfolk-Sound
oder [Libaka?]. Ref. note: Langsdorff--German ed., Vol II, Plate 6; text, p. 76; not in English edition. Inscriptions in German.
Subjects:
Alaska;
Discovery & exploration;
Dwellings;
Expeditions & surveys;
Military facilities;
Northwest, Pacific;
Northwest, Pacific;
Northwest, Pacific;
Settlements;
Vessels;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Marines (Visual works);
Travel sketches;
Wash drawings