Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Sykes, John (1773-1858), British, artist
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
View of the New Eddystone, a remarkable rock in Bhering Canal [Alaska]
Date:
[between 1791 and 1795]
Materials:
drawing on paper: watercolor
Dimensions:
19.5 x 24.2 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1115--FR
Subject:
- Alaska
- Expeditions & surveys
- Nature
- Northwest, Pacific
- Voyages to
the Pacific
- Drawings
- Landscapes
- Travel sketches
- Watercolors
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Content/Description:
Notes:
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.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
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.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf9c60127 x

View of the New Eddystone, a remarkable rock in Bhering Canal [Alaska]