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C1846
Coepang, from the Anchorage.
Rare engraving recording the 3rd expedition of the Beagle, 1837-1843 at Timor. References: Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 4406. Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney 1987 89a. Collections: National Library Australia: Bib ID 2842583 State … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Coepang, from the Anchorage.
Date:
C1846
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
140mm
x 90mm
Paper Size:
219mm
x 140mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1846
Description:
Rare engraving recording the 3rd expedition of the Beagle, 1837-1843 at Timor.
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 4406.
Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney 1987 89a.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 2842583
State Library New South Wales: CALL NUMBERS MD 2 U 14
State Library Victoria: RARELT 919.4 ST6
Royal Geographic Society SA: RGS Special Coll. 919.4042 S874
Royal Museum Greenwich: ID: PAG8139 (original ink drawing)
State Library of Western Australia: 919.4 STO
Captain Owen Stanley (1811 - 1850)
Stanley was a British Royal Navy officer and surveyor, entered the Royal Naval College at the age of fifteen. After gaining the rank of midshipman in 1826, in 1826–1827, he spent time in South America on board HMS Ganges. In 1830, he was with Phillip Parker King on board HMS Adventure while it surveyed the Straits of Magellan at the tip of South America. In December 1846 Stanley sailed from Portsmouth in charge of HMS Rattlesnake, with the naturalists Thomas Huxley, John MacGillivray and artist Oswald Walters Brierly on board, accompanied by Charles Bampfield Yule in HMS Bramble. In November 1847 he arrived at Port Curtis on the Australian coast, and after surveying the harbour described it as a very good anchorage. In 1848 he continued further north to survey New Guinea, and in June of that year offered protection and assistance to Edmund Kennedy’s expedition to Cape York Peninsula. Owen went on to survey the Louisiade Archipelago but in 1849 fell ill, and died in March 1850 after returning to Sydney.
