Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Orlowski, Aleksandr (1777-1832), Polish, artist
Creator Name:
Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlief (1769-1857), German, artist
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
[View of island of Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]
Date:
1810
Materials:
drawing on paper: ink and wash
Dimensions:
26.4 x 41.7 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1004--ffALB
Subject:
- Discovery & exploration
- Expeditions & surveys
- Indigenous peoples
- Oceania
- Vessels
- Voyages to the Pacific
- Landscapes
- Travel sketches
- Wash drawings
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Five native men paddling in long canoe; wild, rocky landscape with waterfalls in distance. Made by Orlovsky in St. Petersburg, Russia after on-the-spot sketch by Tilesius.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Supplied title. Signature and date (LL, in ink): ALO [monogram of Alexander Orlovsky], 1810. Handwritten (UL, in ink): Tab. I. Ref. note: Langsdorff--German edition, Vol. I, Plate 4; text, p.76; English edition, Vol. I, Plate 4; text, p. 88.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf0q2nb36 x

[View of island of Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]