Title:
View of Point Venus and the tents, from anchoring place in Matavai Bay, Otakeite [Tahiti, Society Islands, Polynesian archipelago]
Creator/Contributor:
Humphries, W. (d.1799), artist (artist)
Date:
[between 1791 and 1795]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1142--ffALB
Format:
drawing on paper: watercolor and pencil
10.4 x 34 cm.
Content/Description:
Beach with tents on shore; palm trees and other structures in distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Handwritten title (LC). Signature (LR): W. Humphreys. Handwritten (above title): Rocks and breakers; (LR): 45.
Subjects:
Camping;
Expeditions & surveys;
Oceania;
Tahiti;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Drawings;
Landscapes;
Travel sketches;
Watercolors