• Title
  [Coral Church at Papetoai, Eimeo, ca. 1846 / attributed to William Wiles]
• Creator
  William Wiles
• Call number
  ML 366
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [ca. 1846]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  414478
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - in frame 26.5 x 39.5 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  William Wiles was paymaster and purser on the steam sloop HMS Salamander during a Pacific voyage in 1846. The Mitchell Library holds five other paintings by him, all of views in the Society Islands.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Unsigned, undated and untitled.
  Attributed and dated by reference to other paintings by Wiles in the Mitchell Library (ML 368, ML 369).
  See for comparison and identification, Conrad Shipley: 'Sketches in the Pacific...' London, McLean, 1851 (ML F989/S,f.11, Mitchell Library).
  Digital order no:a128027
• Topic
  churches
  exploration
  
• Place
  Moorea (French Polynesia)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Painting the Pacific - State Library of New South Wales (28 January - 28 April, 2002)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3151684

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