Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
[Establishment of Russian American company at Norfolk Sound, Alaska]
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Materials:
drawing on paper: wash
Dimensions:
23.1 x 28.6 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1019--ffALB
Subject:
- Alaska
- Discovery & exploration
- Dwellings
- Expeditions & surveys
- Military Facilities
- Northwest, Pacific
- Settlements
- Vessels
- Voyages to the Pacific
- Marines (Visual works)
- Travel sketches
- Wash drawings
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Fort on a hill, with log cabins below, and encircling small harbor; three sailing ships on bay; mountains in distance.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in pencil): N[ummer] Ansicht des Etablissements in Norfolk-Sound; (LR, in ink): dess. par G. de Langsdorff; (UR, in ink): 4; (on verso, in pencil): Langsdorff... Ansicht des Etablissements Companie in Norfolk-Sound oder [Libaka?]. Ref. note: Langsdorff--German ed., Vol II, Plate 6; text, p. 76; not in English edition. Inscriptions in German.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf4j49p3c 4

[Establishment of Russian American company at Norfolk Sound, Alaska]