• Title
  A View in the Harbour of Port Mahon / Phillip Parker King, ca.1810
• Creator
  Phillip Parker King, 1791-1856
• Call number
  SV/96
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1810
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  423917
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - with ink on wove paper - 20 x 30 cm (includes border)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Phillip Parker King, naval officer and hydrographer, entered the navy in 1807. He served in the North Sea, the Bay of Biscal, and the Mediterranean over the next six years initially as midshipman on the ship Diana then was promoted to master's mate in 1810. -- Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.2, 1788-1850. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1967
• Collection history
  King family by descent. Reference: Library correspondence file
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  This drawing was executed during King's period in the Mediterranean. Port Mahon, on the island of Minorca, was considered one of the finest natural harbours in the Mediterranean.
  Digital order no:a128425
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled on border of image in ink.
  Handwritten in pencil at lower right of border, "P.P.K."
• Topic
  harbours
  rowers
  ships
  
• Place
  Mahon (Spain)
  Minorca (Spain)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3178842

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