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PIRCAIRN ISLAND 1848, SET OF 6 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS BY LIUETENANT CONWAY SHIPLEY (1824-1888) OF HMS CALYPSO, each inscribed and signed with initials, dated 10, 11 March 1848
Original studies for the plates published in Shipley's Sketches in the Pacific, published London 1851, see Abbey Travel 601, Ferguson 15656a.
Comprising:
Chapel & School House...Mar.10'48, finished watercolour 23.4 x 35.5 cm
Thursday October Christian's House...Mar.11th 48, pencil and sepia wash, 19.2 x 28.4 cm, window-mounted
School House & Chapel...Mar 11/48, pencil and sepia wash, 15.7 x 24.7 cm, window-mounted
Bounty Bay...11th March 1848, pencil and sepia wash 19.7 x 28.5 cm, window-mounted
House & tomb of Jno Adams, the last survivor of the mutineers of teh Bounty. d. Mar 15. 1829. age 85, pencil and sepia wash, 15.7 x 24.7 cm, window-mounted
[view of Pitcairn Island] locating H.M.S. Calypso, Bounty Bay, The settlement, sepia wash (hole in corner affecting date) 13 x 35.8 cm, window-mounted
The first major pictorial series of Pitcairn Island in the nineteenth century. The 5 sepia drawings were used for the 1981 Pitcairn Island definitive series of postage stamps and for a later First Day Cover; sold with a lithographed plate School House and Chapel from the published work
Original studies for the plates published in Shipley's Sketches in the Pacific, published London 1851, see Abbey Travel 601, Ferguson 15656a.
Comprising:
Chapel & School House...Mar.10'48, finished watercolour 23.4 x 35.5 cm
Thursday October Christian's House...Mar.11th 48, pencil and sepia wash, 19.2 x 28.4 cm, window-mounted
School House & Chapel...Mar 11/48, pencil and sepia wash, 15.7 x 24.7 cm, window-mounted
Bounty Bay...11th March 1848, pencil and sepia wash 19.7 x 28.5 cm, window-mounted
House & tomb of Jno Adams, the last survivor of the mutineers of teh Bounty. d. Mar 15. 1829. age 85, pencil and sepia wash, 15.7 x 24.7 cm, window-mounted
[view of Pitcairn Island] locating H.M.S. Calypso, Bounty Bay, The settlement, sepia wash (hole in corner affecting date) 13 x 35.8 cm, window-mounted
The first major pictorial series of Pitcairn Island in the nineteenth century. The 5 sepia drawings were used for the 1981 Pitcairn Island definitive series of postage stamps and for a later First Day Cover; sold with a lithographed plate School House and Chapel from the published work
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