Drawings and sketches made during a voyage around the world, 1791-1795
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Description
- Title
- Drawings and sketches made during a voyage around the world, 1791-1795
- Creator
- Bacstrom, Sigismund
- Published / Created
- 1792-1800, bulk 1792-1794.
- Abstract
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Views of natives, landscapes, and ethnographic objects of the Northwest Coast of America, Pacific Islands, China, and South America. Half of the drawings are fully rendered watercolors, others are rough sketches with detailed notes on coloring, dates of anchorages, and occasionally events on board ship or shore. Ten watercolors are of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, eight of them signed by Bacstrom and fully executed after his return. There are ten views of the Northwest Coast of America, including Nootka Sound and Queen Charlotte's Island, and Native American villages at Norfolk Sound and Fitzhugh Sound. There are two maps of Queen Charlotte's Island, six watercolors of canoes from the Northwest Coast and the Pacific Islands, and four drawings of Native American and Pacific island ethnographic objects
There are eighteen watercolor sketches and drawings of the coast of South America and the islands in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Staaten Island near Cape Horn. Other drawings include ten watercolors of Chinese men and women, a pencil drawing of a Chinese junk, and a watercolor of an American tea plant. The drawings are accompanied by a highly finished watercolor of the Greenland Whale Fishery not made during the voyage, and a manuscript catalog of "some accurate and characteristic original drawings" made on the voyage with prices; not all of the drawings listed correspond to drawings present in the collection
- Description
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Bacstrom, a protégé of Sir Joseph Banks, served as surgeon on a private fur-trading ship which sailed around Cape Horn to the South Seas, Nootka Sound, the East Indies, and the Cape. Bacstrom left the ship at Nootka Sound and later served as surgeon on several ships, visiting China, India, the Cape, and the Americas.
Accompanied by a container list.
Manuscript captions.
View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database - Provenance
- Purchased by Paul Mellon from C.A. Stonehill, 1967. Bequest of Paul Mellon (Yale 1929), 2000.
- Extent
- 63 drawings : 42.8 x 31.1 cm. and smaller.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- WA MSS S-2405 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Pictorial works
Maps
Drawings (visual works)
Watercolors (paintings) - Material
- pencil, pen-and-ink, and watercolor ;
- Subject (Geographic)
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Northwest, Pacific
Hawaii
China
Islands of the Pacific
Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.)
South America
Greenland - Subject (Topic)
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Indians of North America
Social life and customs
Clothing and dress
Whaling - Subjects
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Northwest, Pacific > Pictorial works
Indians of North America > Northwest, Pacific > Pictorial works
Hawaii > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
China > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
Clothing and dress > China > Pictorial works
Islands of the Pacific > Pictorial works
Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.) > Maps
South America > Pictorial works
Whaling > Greenland > Pictorial works
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Sigismund Bacstrom, Drawings and Sketches Made on a Voyage Around the World. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 4758435
- Object ID (OID)
- 33110571