• Title
  Captain James Cook - watercolour miniature on snuff-box
• Call number
  MIN 81
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1900-1901 (dated from hallmark)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  431171
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour on card miniature set in a frame on the lid of an oval shaped silver snuff box. The outside of the frame is surrounded by 24 artificial gems of graduated sizes (one is missing) in a crescent shape. - 4.3 x 3.1 cm. (drawing, in framelines) - 8.4 x 6.6 cm. (snuff box)
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  The assay mark of the anchor denotes that the object was manufactured in Birmingham and the lion motif denotes a standard of silver. The "b" symbol in a shield with a curved base indicates that it was produced ca. 1900-1901.
  
  This miniature was one of five of Captain Cook bequeathed by D.S. Mitchell in 1907. -- Reference: The Public Library of New South Wales : annual report of the Trustees for the year ended 31st December 1908. Sydney : Public Library of New South Wales. Trustees, 1909.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Stamped on inside of lid is the hallmark, "GU / [lion, one paw raised, facing left] / b"
  Stamped inside snuff box, "GU / [anchor symbol] / [lion motif] / b"
• Subject
  Cook, James, 1728-1779.
  Snuff boxes and bottles.
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  miniatures
  naval officers
  personal effects
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8805144

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