Kapitein James Wilson op het eiland Otaheité, Francesco Bartolozzi, after Robert Smirke, 1804

Title(s)

Kapitein James Wilson op het eiland Otaheité
The Cession of Matavai (in Tahiti) to Captain James Wilson
The Cession of the District of Matavai in the Island of Otaheite to Captain James Wilson for the use of the Missionaries Sent Thither by that Society in the Ship Duff (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-5386

Catalogue reference

• De Vesme (Bartolozzi) 545

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 12
• collector's mark: Lugt 2165

Description

Kapitein Wilson en zijn gevolg van missionarissen ontmoeten inwoners van Tahiti op het eiland Otaheité. Titel en opdracht in het Engels in ondermarge.

Artist

• print maker: Francesco Bartolozzi (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Robert Smirke (mentioned on object)
• publisher: W. Jeffreyes & Co. (mentioned on object)
• W. Jeffreyes & Co. (mentioned on object)
• London Missionary Society (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: Italy
after painting by: England
publisher: England
England
London

Dating

1804

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 609 mm × width 790 mm

What

• spreading the gospel; missionary work
• religious functionaries ~ Australian and Polynesian/Melanesian religions
• seaman: sailor

Where

• Tahiti

Who

• James Wilson

Acquisition

purchase 1828

Copyright

Public domain

• Francesco Bartolozzi, A. Calabi, cat.nr. 545
• Selling prints to the Rijksmuseum in 1827, Erik Hinterding