• Title
  Volume 1: Voyage of H.M.S. Britomart from 1837 to 1843 / drawn by Owen Stanley
• Call number
  SAFE/PXC 279
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1837-1843
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  446481
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (72 drawings) - watercolour and pencil - 26.5 x 38 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  Inside front cover. [Envelope containing] Correspondence [3 letters], related to the expedition by Mrs. Chas. E. Stanley, London of 3 vols. sketches by Commander Owen Stanley, R.N. Dec. 1900. ...
  i. The National Art Gallery of N.S.W. Ex Libris [bookplate]
  1. H.M. Ships Alligator and Britomart off Plymouth breakwater
  2. H.M.S. Britomart, sunset in the Channel Feby 1838
  3a. Shipping a heavy sea in the Bay of Biscay March 1838
  3b. First fair wind and last view of the shores of Europe March 8. 1838
  4. Setting the rigging up at sea. March 9 1838
  5a. Hidalgo Point Teneriffe March 15 1837
  5b. Sunset running down the Trades
  6. Interior of the Cathedral at Teneriffe where the flags taken during Nelsons attack are displayed
  7. Sketch from the Commandant of Marines garden Teneriffe where the Magnetic Observations are made.
  8. Crossing the Line
  9a. Rio Janeiro
  9b. Wreck of a Brazilian Man of war Schooner off the Fort of Santa Cruz Rio Janeiro. She was taken aback by a sudden squall off the point, her bowsprit carried away her crew became confused she got stern way and tailed upon the rocks where she soon filled. Several lives were lost and the boats of an American Frigate sent to her assistance hauled her off into deep water where she went down before they could save any thing out of her.
  10. Simon's Bay Cape of Good Hope May 26 1838
  11a. Farmer Peck's Simon's Bay June 2 1838
  11b. Turnpike near farmer Pecks
  12. Cape Town and Table Mountain June 1 1838
  13a. Market place Cape Town June 1838
  13b. George Street Cape Town
  14. [Flying fish] found in the lee Quarter Boat June 8th. Lat. 36 17' S Long. 31 20' E. [Signed lower right] Owen Stanley
  15. This fish struck the Look-out man on the Forecastle in the face June 17. 1838. 2/3 Natural size. [Signed lower right] Owen Stanley
  16. Quarter Boat washed away off St. Paul's June 13 1838
  17a. Sydney North Head with a squall brewing
  17b. Sketch in North Harbour Sydney Aug 15. 1838
  18a. Sydney. Middle and Entrance of North Harbour August 15, 1838
  18b. Specimen of a Country Church near Dunheved Capt. Kings Farm.
  19. Captn. King's farm Dunheved
  20. H.M.S. Britomart in a heavy Squall off Port Mc.Quarrie
  21a. [Fish] Caught off Port Macquarie Sep. 29/38 in 20 fms. [Signed lower right] Owen Stanley
  21b. Skull of same fish 1/2 nat size. [Signed lower right] Owen Stanley
  22. Torres Straits
  23. Water Spout near Breaksea Spit.
  24a. Prows at Dobbo
  24b. Trading boat Dobbo
  25. Ship Orontes running on shore to avoid sinking after striking on a reef that now bears her name off the Entrance of Port Essington, from description
  26. Orontes December 21, 1838
  27. Situation of Orontes when abandoned by her Master & Crew. Decr.28/38
  28. Garden Victoria Jan 12/39. [Titled on mount below image:] Government Garden Port Essington
  29. Grass trees Victoria. [Titled on mount below image:] Grass trees Port Essington [In pencil:] Pandanus sp.
  30. Middle Head Victoria
  31. Rock fish Port Essington
  32. Rock fish Port Essington [In pencil] Lophus sp.
  33. [Blank]
  34. Middle Head shoal
  35. Banda from the Westward
  36. Prows off Port Essington February 13 1840
  37. Landing place Oliliet
  38. The Town of Olliliet in Timor Laut
  39. Birds eye sketch of a Trading Proa Arrou Islands
  40. [unfinished sketch of huts]
  41. Dobbo Arou Islands. [On mount under sketch:] Drying Trepang or Sea Slug for the Chinese market
  42. Prow Ki Doula
  43. Interview with the Natives of Vordate
  44. Middle Head Victor
  45. [Port Essington from the Battery.]
  46. Government House from the Battery on the Queen's Birthday. Shall the troops advance?
  47. Regatta Victoria
  48. Theatre Royal Victoria [i.e. Port Essington]
  49. Lieut Priest's house Port Essington. [In pencil:] 1839
  50. Ruins of the Church Victoria
  51. Victoria November 27. 1839
  52. Govt. House Victoria after the Hurricane Novr. 25 1839
  53. Barrack Square Port Essington after the Hurricane showing the rotatory nature of the Storm by the different directions in which the trees and houses were blown down. [On top edge of drawing:] Barrack Square Victoria.
  54. Ruins of Church and Peloru's peoples tents Victoria Jany./40
  55. Situation of H.M.S. Pelorus the morning after the Hurricane, 8 of her crew were drowned some when she upset and some in trying to reach the land, most of them were landed in the Britomart's Whale boat
  56. H.M.S Pelorus at low water
  57. H.M.S. Pelorus at half tide
  58. H.M.S. Pelorus from the mud outside her Decr/39.
  59. H.M.S. Pelorus half tide
  60. H.M.S. Pelorus tents and stores
  61. Sketch of the situation of H.M.S. Pelorus when partly righted showing the purchases. Half tide.
  62. H.M.S. Pelorus the last time we hove upon her Feby/40
  63a. [Port Essington]
  63b. Storehouse Port Essington
  64a. Burying Place Port Essington
  64b. Landing place Port Essington
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Titled on spine
  Captions chiefly appear on page below the drawing or on the drawing.
  The volume is labelled`1'. No. `3' is located at PXC 280. A memo dated 1900, probaby by the donor, states that volume 2 was being sent to Hobart. -- info. from catalogue card
  no. 61 exhibited at Australian National maritime Museum, Sept. 1990-.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823411
• Name
  Alligator (Ship)
  Britomart (ship)
  Pelorus (ship)
  
• Topic
  interiors
  bays
  decks (ships)
  fish
  grasstrees
  houses
  huts
  rowing boats
  sailing ships
  seas
  shipwrecks
  stages (theatres)
  
• Place
  Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
  Cape Town (South Africa)
  Dunheved (N.S.W. : Farm)
  Oliliet (Indonesia)
  Plymouth (England)
  Port Essington (N.T.)
  Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Tenerife (Canary Islands)
  Torres Strait (Qld.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Blighted paradise : colonial visions of Northern Australia - Rockhampton Art Gallery (12 October - 25 November, 2001)
  Drama in Australian Maritime Art - Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
  Painting the Pacific - State Library of New South Wales (January, 2002 - April, 2002)
  Sound of the sky - Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1120071

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