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Title: [View of Island of Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]
Creator: Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlief (1769-1857), German, artist Orlowski, Aleksandr (1777-1832), Polish, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1810
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 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.
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.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: ink and wash 26.4 x 41.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf0q2nb36x
BANC PIC 1963.002:1004--ffALB
Subject: Discovery & exploration
Expeditions & surveys
Indigenous peoples
Oceania
Vessels
Voyages to the Pacific

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