HMS 'Basilisk', anchored in Threshold Bay, New Guinea, 28 May 1874

An image showing 'H.M.S. Basilisk Captn John Moresby, 24 May 1874. Threshold Bay New Guinea, Anchorea'

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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.

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Object Details

ID:	PAF8115
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