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Title
View of a boat encampment, Pugets Sound, Straits de Fuca [Washington]
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
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Description
Two tents on shore; two long boats near shore; men in boats and on shore. Puget Sound named May 1792 for Peter Puget, a Vancouver lieutenant.
Handwritten title (LC). Signature (LR): John Sykes. Handwritten (LR, below signature): 15.
Type
image
Format
Drawing on paper: watercolor and pencil 15.5 x 19.2 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4n39p2qg
BANC PIC 1963.002:1112--ffALB
Subject
Camping
Expeditions & surveys
Northwest, Pacific
Vessels
Voyages to the Pacific
Washington (State)

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