Image / View from the anchorage of the Island of Cocos [Costa Rica)

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Title: View from the anchorage of the Island of Cocos [Costa Rica)
Creator: Sykes, John (1773-1858), British, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1791 and 1795]
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: Cocos Island covered with trees; tiny islet to left. Twin-masted sailing boat and long boat sketched in lightly, in pencil.
Handwritten title (LC). Signature (LR): John Sykes. Handwritten (LR): 46.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: watercolor and pencil 19.7 x 35.6 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2b69p0cr
BANC PIC 1963.002:1143--ffALB
Subject: Central America
Costa Rica
Expeditions & surveys
Voyages to the Pacific

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