• Title
  The Discovery on the Rocks in Queen Charlotte's Sound, 1792? / Zachariah Mudge
• Creator
  Zachariah Mudge
• Call number
  DL Pd 695
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1792?
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  861156
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : DL Pd 695
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - 12 x 18.7 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title is from inscription below painting.
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
• General note
  
  The painting is related to the engraving by W. Alexander with the same title, in Vancouver, G., 'A voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean', London, 1798, vol. 1, opposite p.364. At bottom right of engraving is the inscription: 'W. Alexander drawn by from a sketch on the spot by Zachariah Mudge'.
  
  
  Copy Print : DL Pd 695 available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  
  Keyword subject;
  
  Queen Charlotte's Sound (British Columbia)
  Digital order no:a7764001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  The artist may be Zachariah Mudge, a lieutenant who sailed with Vancouver (see G. Godwin, 'Vancouver, a life, 1757-1798', London, 1930).
• Date note
  
  Dated from period of Vancouver's navigation of Queen Charlotte's Sound.
• Name
  Discovery (ship : Captain = George Vancouver)
  Vancouver, George, 1758-1798
  
• Topic
  shipping accidents
  ships
  stewards (ships)
  seascapes (views)
  
• Place
  British Columbia
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3259968

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