Booby Island, Torres Straits

Mounted on page with PAI1858, PAI1860, and in album with PAI1796-PAI1858, PAI1860-PAI1933.

ID:	PAI1859
Type:	Drawing
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Edgell, Harry Edmund
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	73 mm x 255 mm
Parts:	Album of watercolours and drawings by Captain Edgell, RN, 1824-1859, with a few by other artists (Album) Block House Point Portsmouth (Drawing) (PAI1796) The Semaphore, Portsmouth (Drawing) (PAI1797) Sketch of HMS Asia (Drawing) (PAI1798) Sketch of Part of Rochester Castle (Drawing) (PAI1799) The Needles and Alum Bay (Drawing) (PAI1800) Sketch of McLeod's Maidens. N.W. Coast of Scotland, HMS Nimrod (Drawing) (PAI1801) Bukington Church, Somerset (Drawing) (PAI1802) A Shipwreck on the coast of Cornwall (Drawing) (PAI1803) St John's Newfoundland (Drawing) (PAI1804) HMS Orestes weathering on Icebrg (Drawing) (PAI1805) HMS Orestes 1827 Halifax (Drawing) (PAI1806) Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, HMS Dotterel 1827 Baillee Hamilton Commander (Drawing) (PAI1807) Portugese Fishing Boat HMS Wolf 1827 (Drawing) (PAI1808) Lisbon Passage Boat 1827 (Drawing) (PAI1809) Sketch of a view of the Mouth of the Tagus (Drawing) (PAI1810) Sketch of the African Coast, 1827, HMS Wolf G Haget, Commander (Drawing) (PAI1811) Sketch of the Isle of Gozo, off Malta (Drawing) (PAI1812) Sketch off Sardinia, HMS Dartmouth on route to Marseille (Drawing) (PAI1813) Sketch of Toro Rock after sunset (Drawing) (PAI1814) Sketch of French Coast, Marseille, Gulf of Lyon (Drawing) (PAI1815) Sketch of the Coast of Marseille (Drawing) (PAI1816) Sketch of the Coast of Sicily, 1828 (Drawing) (PAI1817) Sketch of the Coast of Sicily (Drawing) (PAI1818) Sketch of Garabusa or the Pirates Isle, off Candia (Drawing) (PAI1819) Sketch of Garabusa or the Pirates Isle, off Candia (Drawing) (PAI1820) Sketch of Watering Place, Suda Bay, Isle of Cadia, HMS Dartmouth blockaded this Port for 4 months 1828 (Drawing) (PAI1821) Sketch of His Imperial Majesty's ship Oxta 24 guns Captain Nicolskoff (Drawing) (PAI1822) Isle of Capri, Naples, 1828 (Drawing) (PAI1823) Sketch of Castle del Oro, Napoli, 1828 (Drawing) (PAI1824) Etna, Sicily, HMS Wolf (Drawing) (PAI1825) Athens from the sea (Drawing) (PAI1826) Sketch of Penache? lighthouse, with shipping in foreground (Drawing) (PAI1827) Sketch off Maderia, HMS Imogene en route to India, Honble Price Blackwood, captain (Drawing) (PAI1828) Sketch of coastline of Maderia (Drawing) (PAI1829) Isle of Rondo, Rio de Janeiro (Drawing) (PAI1830) Lord Hood's Nose, Rio de Janeiro (Drawing) (PAI1831) Sketch of La Gloria, Rio de Janeiro (Drawing) (PAI1832) Sketch of Iraquita, Rio de Janeiro (Drawing) (PAI1833) Sketch of The Waterfall Iraquito, 1831, Rio de Janeiro (Drawing) (PAI1834) Point de Galle, Ceylon (Drawing) (PAI1835) Rough outline sketch of a crocodile's head (Drawing) (PAI1836) The skeleton of an alligator's head shot at Trincomalee, Nov 1833 (Drawing) (PAI1837) Cave of Elephanta, Bombay, 1832 (Drawing) (PAI1838) Arab Coasting boat, Bombay (Drawing) (PAI1839) An Arab Piratical boat (Drawing) (PAI1840) Arab dhow, 1832 (Drawing) (PAI1841) Arab dhow (seen stern on) (Drawing) (PAI1842) Malacca, Mount Ophir in the distance (Drawing) (PAI1843) The Canal leading from the Roads to the City of Batavia, 1833 (Drawing) (PAI1844) View on the Derwent (Drawing) (PAI1845) A Rocky Valley, near Norfolk (Drawing) (PAI1846) Government? Cottage on the Derwent near Norfolk, 1833 (Drawing) (PAI1847) The ferry, near Norfolk, 1833 (Drawing) (PAI1848) The Lighthouse, Sydney, New South Wales (Drawing) (PAI1849) Garden Island, Juan River, N.H., HMS Imogene (Drawing) (PAI1850) Pulo Carnai?, Juan River, HMS Imogene (Drawing) (PAI1851) Native Huts, Torres Straits (Drawing) (PAI1852) Oyster Harbour, King George's Sound, N.S.W. (Drawing) (PAI1853) Native burying ground, New South Wales (Drawing) (PAI1854) Mount Coburn, Torres Straits, 1832 (Drawing) (PAI1855) Singular appearance of Land, Torres Straits (Drawing) (PAI1856) HM Ship in Torres Straits (Drawing) (PAI1857) Wreck of the Agnes of Leith, in Torres Straits (Drawing) (PAI1858) Booby Island, Torres Straits (Drawing) (PAI1859) Tongataboo [Tonga] (Drawing) (PAI1860) Passing the reef, Tongataboo, Friendly Islands [Tonga] (Drawing) (PAI1861) Anger, Coast of Java (Drawing) (PAI1862) The Monument erected to the Memory of La Parouse, Botany Bay, N.S.W. (Drawing) (PAI1863) Chusn pee, Bocca Tigris, China (Drawing) (PAI1864) Interior of the Battery on Tigris Island, seen from the mast head of HMS Andromache, Bocca Tigris (Drawing) (PAI1865) Rough sketch of an Indian Trimurti in Bombay (Drawing) (PAI1866) Sketch of emus (Drawing) (PAI1867) Sketch of a Bungalow, Pulo Penang, East Indies (Drawing) (PAI1868) Sketch of a scene on Tongataboo, with natives in a scene [Tonga] (Drawing) (PAI1869) The Waterfall at Pulo Penang, East Indies (Drawing) (PAI1870) A perforated Rock, New Zealand, HMS Imogene in the distance (Drawing) (PAI1871) Pak--, Bay of Islands, New Zealand (Drawing) (PAI1872) Rough sketch entitled 'Native girls bathing', showing Pacific women (Drawing) (PAI1873) Egina, 1846 (Aegina, Greece) (Drawing) (PAI1874) Nagasaki (Drawing) (PAI1875) Chapelle de St Louis, Tunis (Drawing) (PAI1876) Sketch of a tower on top of a rock headland, entitled Misenum (Drawing) (PAI1877) The Ascent to the Cedars. The Kadisha (Drawing) (PAI1878) Valley Leading to the Cedars (Drawing) (PAI1879) Ancient Temple ruins. Remains of the Temple of the Sun, Baalbec (Drawing) (PAI1880) Vallis Vale, Somerset (Drawing) (PAI1881) Gateway of the Temple of the Sun, Baalbec (Drawing) (PAI1882) Island of Ipsera (Drawing) (PAI1883) The Mosque of St Sophia, Salonica (Drawing) (PAI1884) The Squadron off Cape St Angelo (Drawing) (PAI1885) View from Pembridge House (Drawing) (PAI1886) HMS Siren off Scilly (Drawing) (PAI1887) The Burlings, P&O Steamer Tagus (Drawing) (PAI1888) The Life Boat going off (Drawing) (PAI1889) Snipe shooting at Etaples pres de Boulogne (Drawing) (PAI1890) Snipe shooting ay Abbeville, Adrift with Colin Joss-? (Drawing) (PAI1891) Three men bird-shooting at Abbeville (Drawing) (PAI1892) Hastings from St Leonards, 1849 (Drawing) (PAI1893) Teignmouth, 1851 (Drawing) (PAI1894) The Parson & Clerk, Teignmouth, 1851 (Drawing) (PAI1895) Scala-Nova, Asia Minor, Siren (Drawing) (PAI1896) Pompey's Pillar, Alexandria (Drawing) (PAI1897) Scene in New South Wales with large unusual rock formation, and man standing holding a rifle (Drawing) (PAI1898) Ruins of a church (Drawing) (PAI1899) Porch entrance and a door, part of a church? (Drawing) (PAI1900) HM brig sailing past coast with 'mountains near Algiers' (Drawing) (PAI1901) Gill Kicker', Hasler Creek (Drawing) (PAI1902) Estuary at low tide, with shipping (Drawing) (PAI1903) Scene by a river, with naval? buildings in distance (Drawing) (PAI1904) Peasant girl holding a basket (Drawing) (PAI1905) Young peasant boy sitting, with his head hung down (Drawing) (PAI1906) Scene with smugglers? fighting with and fleeing from the militia (Drawing) (PAI1907) Young boy sitting with a hand on a jug in front of him (Drawing) (PAI1908) Mediterranean? scene, with a church on an island in a bay (Drawing) (PAI1909) Jeddah from the sea, 1859 (Drawing) (PAI1910) A Cedar of Lebanon (Drawing) (PAI1911) Dyonisices [Dionysius'] Ear, Syracuse, Sicily (Drawing) (PAI1912) Scene on the beach at Brighton (Print) (PAI1913) Scene in Mediterranean?, with distant mountain range (Drawing) (PAI1914) Mediterranean scene with village on beach among a huge mountain range (Drawing) (PAI1915) St Paul's Bay, Malta (Drawing) (PAI1916) Cape Karabonau, Gulf of Smyrma (Drawing) (PAI1917) Mount Carmel, Holy Land (Drawing) (PAI1918) William Tell's Chapel, Lake of Lucerne (Drawing) (PAI1919) Two sketches, St Paul preaching at Solonica and architecture of an ancient gateway (Drawing) (PAI1920) Sketch of one of the Assassins of Sir Lawrence Jones, Bart, murdered at Macri, Asia Minor (Drawing) (PAI1921) Sketch of farmyard buildings, with church tower in the distance (Drawing) (PAI1922) Raglan Castle, Monmouthshire (Drawing) (PAI1923) Country scene with cows by a watering place, 'From Nature' (Drawing) (PAI1924) Norman church surrounded by countryside (Drawing) (PAI1925) Two figures resting by a large rock formation (Drawing) (PAI1926) From workers loading hay onto a wagon, 'From nature' (Drawing) (PAI1927) Country scene, Edington, Wiltshire, showing a cottage, a large Norman church, and a man sitting on the roadside (Drawing) (PAI1928) Small church in an overgrown graveyard (Drawing) (PAI1929) Naval action, Fatshan Creek, 1 June 1857 (Drawing) (PAI1930) The Raising of Lazarus (Print) (PAI1931) Mediterranean Seaport (Print) (PAI1932) Landscape with sun setting, goats and herdsmen in foreground (Print) (PAI1933)

Booby Island, Torres Straits

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