print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1868,1212.398
- Title
- Object: View of the Island of Ouby, from Freshwater Bay, on Batchian
- Description
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View of a bay with large shells, coral, fossils and shrub plants on the shore, a man collecting a shell in the left foreground while a companion sits waiting in a small canoe behind, with mountains on the horizon; after William Hamilton; illustration to Forrest's 'Voyage to New Guinea' (London 1779). 1779
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1779
- Dimensions
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Height: 232 millimetres
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Width: 293 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of five impressions of this print in the BM.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: A Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, from Balambangan: including an account of Magindano, Sooloo, and other islands; and illustrated with thirty copperplates: performed in the Tartar Galley, belonging to the honourable East India Company, during the years 1774, 1775, and 1776, by Thomas Forrest; to which is added A vocabulary of the Magindano tongue
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,1212.398