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Settlement of Australia
The frontispiece to this gorgeous volume captures the adventure associated with the settlement of Australia. Though the documents do not constitute a travel narrative, their connections with the moment of origin provide their intended readers with…
Settling debts at a merchants house.
A typical scene at a merchant's house during the year-end when all outstanding bills must be settled. One clerk works the abacus, another weighs the silver and a third makes entries in the ledger. Three tradesmen have arrived to present their final…
Shaded drawing of Ivan’s head.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: M.T. Woollaston; verso in pencil: Shaded drawing of Iavan’s head. Special regard
Sharland’s, Taranaki.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Sharland’s Taranaki; verso: [unfinished sketch]
Siamese Temple, Burmese Temple, Penang.
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1848; on mount in ink: Siamese Temple, Burmese Temple, Pinang; in pencil: 1848
Signing of the Treaty of Teintsin.
Lawless proceedings in the Canton river, the city of Peking, joss-houses, the Roman Catholic mission, military promenades at Shanghai, the Yangtze, Chinese prostitutes, first views of Deshima and Nagasaki (Japan), the persecution of Christians,…
Sinclair Bay. In Pigeon Bay.
Cap Francis Sinclair died 1846; his widow sold out to Holmes in 1862.
Sinclair’s house, Pigeon Bay, built
Lower right (l.r.) in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Sinclair’s house, Pigeon Bay, built 1840. Sinclair was a shipwright, drowned about 1844; on original mount in ink: These primitive sketches were given to me by …. an old carpenter who worked under…
Singapore from Campong Glam.
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1847; on mount in ink: Singapore from Campong Glam.
Singapore from the deck of the Hooghly.
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1847; on mount in ink: Singapore from the deck of the Hooghly
Singapore town and harbour from Bukit Serapong.
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1847; on mount in ink: Singapore town and harbour from Bukit Serapong; in pencil: 1847
Singapore town from Mount Palmer.
Lower left (l.l.) incised: J.T.T.; l.r. in ink: 1847; on mount in ink: Singapore town from Mount Palmer