Timorlaut / Owen Stanley

DG SSV8.3/3

fonds

1838

Graphic Materials, Watercolours

861636

1 watercolour - 13.5 x 21.7 cm

Out of copyright:
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Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009

Arafura Sea
Tanimbar Island
Timorlaut

Unsigned. Dated and titled as above on back and along upper edge of mount. These inscriptions are not in the artists hand when compared to his inscriptions in Voyage of the H.M.S. Britomart...(Reference : PXC 279)

Attributed to Stanley after comparison with his other works (Reference : albums at PXC 279-281).

The date 1838 appears to be incorrect. The view fits the description of the entrance to the village of Oliliet which Stanley visited in March 1839 (Reference: his description in Stokes, J.L. - Discoveries in Australia...London, Boone, 1846, volume 1, p.458)