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Title: [Three views of two islands near Galapagos Islands, Ecuador]
Creator: Sykes, John (1773-1858), British, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 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: (Compass directions): (Left): N 9 W;Cliff-faced island and a little -rock- island. There are two No. 62's. See 1963.002:1161
Supplied title. Handwritten (LL): View of the norther'most of 2 islands, seen Feb[ruary] 2[n]d 1795, bearg. no. 16 W, 7 miles dist.; (LC): View of the souther'l of the 2 islands seen Feb[ruary] 2[n]d, 1795, S 58 El, 4 or 5 leag. dist.; (LR): The souther'l of the same islands, S 63 W 4 or 5 leags dist. Signature (LR): J. Sykes. Handwritten (LR): 62.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: watercolor and pencil 8.4 x 51.4 cm., composite of 3 sheets
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2h4nb5hv
BANC PIC 1963.002:1163--ffALB
Subject: Ecuador
Expeditions & surveys
South America
Voyages to the Pacific

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