Title:
View of a boat encampment, Pugets Sound, Straits de Fuca [Washington]
Creator/Contributor:
Sykes, John (1773-1858), British, artist (artist)
Date:
[between 1791 and 1795]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1112--ffALB
Format:
drawing on paper: watercolor and pencil
15.5 x 19.2 cm.
Content/Description:
Two tents on shore; two long boats near shore; men in boats and on shore. Puget Sound named May 1792 for Peter Puget, a Vancouver
lieutenant.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Handwritten title (LC). Signature (LR): John Sykes. Handwritten (LR, below signature): 15.
Subjects:
Camping;
Expeditions & surveys;
Northwest, Pacific;
Vessels;
Voyages to the Pacific;
Washington (State)
Genre/Format:
Drawings;
Landscapes;
Travel sketches;
Watercolors
