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457667
  • Title
    [A toopapaoo i.e. tupapa'u of a chief, with a priest making his offering to the morai, in Huoheine], 1777 / drawn by John Webber
  • Creator
  • Call number
    DL Pf 56
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1777
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    457667
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    Drawings - Watercolour - 31.5 x 49.5 cm.
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    Engraved as plate no. 8 in the 1808 Boydell edition of Webber's Views in the South Seas. The engraving shows the same in reverse, with the alteration of a few minor details.
    "Lot No. 3" ("5" crossed out) and "3", in ink, on back.
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Drawn from nature at Huaina 1777 in Webber's hand.
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