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Title: [View of island of Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]
Creator: Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlief (1769-1857), German, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1803 and 1807]
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: General view of rocky terrain seen from off coast; oared sailboat and rowboat on water.
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, on mount, in pencil): Ansicht von der [Neuburgs?]schlucht [...?] in Nukahiwa; (LR, in ink): Dr. Tilesius ad natur[am]; (UR, in ink): 4; (LR, in pencil): 21; (on verso): Langsdorff... Ref. note: Langsdorff--German ed.: Vol. I, Plate 5; text, p. 77; not in English edition. Inscriptions in German.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper mounted on paper: ink and wash 10.1 x 16.7 cm., on mount 12.2 x 18.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9779p55k
BANC PIC 1963.002:1005--ffALB
Subject: Discovery & exploration
Expeditions & surveys
Oceania
Voyages to the Pacific

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