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A View of the Island of Otaheite with the House or Shed called Tupapow
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Record information A View of the Island of Otaheite with the House or Shed called Tupapow
Date:ca. 1771-1773Type of material:ArtFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:2907921Date(s):ca. 1771-1773Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:1 print / estampe : etching and engraving (proof before title) on laid paper
Support 28.000 x 40.800 cm
Platemark 23.700 x 36.000 cmScope and content:A view in the Island of Otaheite; with the house or shed called tupapow, under which the dead are deposited, and a representation of the person who performs the principal part in the funeral ceremony in his peculiar dress. Note the man climbing in the bread-fruit tree on the right., See acc. no. 1991-265-24X., An Account of the voyages undertaken...for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere/ drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks, by John Hawkesworth/ London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773/ Volume two, between pages 234 & 235.Additional name(s):Additional information:General note:album: Volume OneSignatures and inscriptions note:Inscription: in the plate, l.r.: W.Woollett sculp./ No.5.; in pencil, recto, b.: First Voyage - View in the Island Otaheitie, with the house or shed called TupapowSource:PrivateOther accession no.:00025
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Physical access through an art archivist. No restriction on use for reproduction or publicationItem no. assigned by LAC [1991-265 X] 25[Consultation Open]Terms of use:Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-265-25
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