Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
[View of inhabited valley at Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Materials:
drawing on paper: ink and wash
Dimensions:
21.5 x 32 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1009--ffALB
Subject:
- Discovery & exploration
- Dwellings
- Expeditions & surveys
- Indigenous
peoples
- Manners & customs
- Oceania
- Settlements
- Voyages to the
Pacific
- Landscapes
- Travel sketches
- Wash drawings
Heading:
Content/Description:
Notes:
Native village with two bamboo dwellings with slanted roofs set on stone foundations; expedition party members among native men and women; dense tropical vegetation with several palm trees; high mountains in distance.
Heading:
Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Supplied title. Signature (LR, in ink): G. Langsdorff ad nat(uram) delin(eavit). Handwritten (UL, in ink): Tab VI; (on verso, in pencil): Die Ansicht eines beschützten Thales auf Nukahiwa/Siedlung in Nukahiwa/Kopfjäger [...?]. Ref. note: Langsdorff--German edition: Volume I, Plate 10; text, p. 109; English edition: Volume I, Plate 9; text, p. 126. Inscriptions in German.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf2489p1g g

[View of inhabited valley at Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]