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Details
English School, early 19th Century
Portrait of a Man, said to be Midshipman Harvey
watercolour
5½ x 4½in. (14 x 11.5cm.)
with a fashioned bone snuff box with tortoiseshell inlay ('SNUFF BOX WHICH BELONGED TO MIDSHIPMAN HARDY (sic) of Captain Cooks's Ship. DISCOVERY. 1779.' according to a label dated 'SYDNEY 1884' attached to the interior of the lid). (2)
Portrait of a Man, said to be Midshipman Harvey
watercolour
5½ x 4½in. (14 x 11.5cm.)
with a fashioned bone snuff box with tortoiseshell inlay ('SNUFF BOX WHICH BELONGED TO MIDSHIPMAN HARDY (sic) of Captain Cooks's Ship. DISCOVERY. 1779.' according to a label dated 'SYDNEY 1884' attached to the interior of the lid). (2)
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Further details
William Harvey served on both the Resolution and the Discovery on Cook's third voyage (1776-80) and is thought to have settled in Australia in the late 1790s.