Title:
View of the New Eddystone, a remarkable rock in Bhering Canal [Alaska]
Creator/Contributor:
Sykes, John (1773-1858), British, artist (artist)
Date:
[between 1791 and 1795]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1115--FR
Format:
drawing on paper: watercolor
19.5 x 24.2 cm.
Content/Description:
Tall, solitary rock formation located in Behm Canal, near Revillagigedo Island, Alaska. Named by George Vancouver because
of its resemblance to a lighthouse (possibly the Eddystone at Spurn Point) in England.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Handwritten title (LC, on attached strip of paper). Signature (LR): John Sykes/18/John Sykes. Ref. note: Vancouver's voyages,
4th edition, Vol. II, pl. 10, p. 353.
Subjects:
Alaska;
Expeditions & surveys;
Nature;
Northwest, Pacific;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Drawings;
Landscapes;
Travel sketches;
Watercolors