• Title
  H.M.S. Sirius weathering Tasmans-head, 1791 / George Raper
• Creator
  George Raper, 1769-1797
• Call number
  DG SSV*/Ships/3
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  23 April 1789; 1791
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Drawings
• Reference code
  826086
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - ink wash and watercolour - view 12.5 x 29 cm. inside frame lines; on sheet 17.5 x 23.5 cm.
  textual material (1 page) - leaf of ships log handwritten in ink, pasted to back of drawing - 17.5 x 23.5 cm.
  
• Collection history
  Extract from Library Liaison Officer's Letter of 19th January, 1967 (ML 399/1967): "I am attaching a wash drawing titled 'H.M.S. Sirius weathering Tasman's Head' and signed Geo. Raper, 1791. To the back of the drawing is pasted what appears to be a page of a Log of the Sirius dated 23rd April, 1789 when the ship was at Tasman's Head. This is possibly Raper's own log as he was a mid-shipman on the Sirius at the time. I noticed the drawing in the window of some art dealers named Middleton at 231 King's Road, Chelsea, S.W. 3. Middletons said that they had acquired the drawing among some items which were being cleared out of an antique shop in the area."
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a1528366
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated "Geo Raper 1791" in ink on lower right of border. Titled as above in ink on border below view.
• Name
  Sirius (Ship)
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  ships
  voyages & travels
  storms
  watercolours
  
• Place
  Tasman Head (Tas.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3273766

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