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HMS 'Basilisk', anchored in Threshold Bay, New Guinea, 28 May 1874
Inscribed on back of drawing: “HMS ‘Basilisk’, Captain John Moresby 1871. 28th May [1874]. In Threshold Bay, New Guinea. Anchored off a delicious little cove of this large open Bay – The Rajah of Salwatti who is supreme ruler came off to visit us in a large prahu rowed by about 20 men”. See Moresby's "Discoveries & Surveys in New Guinea..." (John Murray, 1876), Chapter XVIII, for this incident.
Heightened with white. Signed “MFM” bottom-right.
Heightened with white. Signed “MFM” bottom-right.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAF8115 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | Drawing |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | M., M. F.; MFM |
| Places: | Unlinked place |
| Vessels: | Basilisk (1848) |
| Date made: | 1874 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Mount: 182 mm x 261 mm |
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