Views of natives, landscapes, and ethnographic objects of the Northwest Coast of America, Pacific Islands, China, and South America. Half of the drawings are fully rendered watercolors, others are rough sketches with detailed notes on coloring, dates of anchorages, and occasionally events on board ship or shore. Ten watercolors are of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, eight of them signed by Bacstrom and fully executed after his return. There are ten views of the Northwest Coast of America, including Nootka Sound and Queen Charlotte's Island, and Native American villages at Norfolk Sound and Fitzhugh Sound. There are two maps of Queen Charlotte's Island, six watercolors of canoes from the Northwest Coast and the Pacific Islands, and four drawings of Native American and Pacific island ethnographic objects and There are eighteen watercolor sketches and drawings of the coast of South America and the islands in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Staaten Island near Cape Horn. Other drawings include ten watercolors of Chinese men and women, a pencil drawing of a Chinese junk, and a watercolor of an American tea plant. The drawings are accompanied by a highly finished watercolor of the Greenland Whale Fishery not made during the voyage, and a manuscript catalog of "some accurate and characteristic original drawings" made on the voyage with prices; not all of the drawings listed correspond to drawings present in the collection
Description:
Bacstrom, a protégé of Sir Joseph Banks, served as surgeon on a private fur-trading ship which sailed around Cape Horn to the South Seas, Nootka Sound, the East Indies, and the Cape. Bacstrom left the ship at Nootka Sound and later served as surgeon on several ships, visiting China, India, the Cape, and the Americas., Accompanied by a container list., Manuscript captions., and View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific, Hawaii, China, Islands of the Pacific, Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.), South America, and Greenland
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Social life and customs, Clothing and dress, and Whaling
Essai sur la geographie des plantes, accompagne dun tableau physique des regions equinoxiales
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
At foot: Esquisse et redige par M. de Humboldt, dessine par Schonberger et turpin a Paris en 1805, grave par Bouquetm la Lettre par Beauble, imprime par Langlois.
Subject (Geographic):
South America
Subject (Topic):
Botany --South America., Discoveries in geography., and Plants
BEIN 90 1700: Sheet measures 54.9 x 74.8 cm. Ms. no. in upper left corner: 69., Relief shown pictorially., Prime meridian: Ferro., Imprint date from Tooley., "Je rends raison dans ma Nouvelle introduction a la geographie des changemens que jay faits sur cete carte.", Cartouche engraved by N. Guérard., and Includes notes.
Atlas geographique et physique des regions equinoxiales du nouveau continent, fonde sur des
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Description:
At foot: Dessine par l'Auteur a Santa Fe de Bogota en 1801, termine a Paris en 1820. / Grave a Paris par L. Coutant - l'Ecriture par L. Aubert. and Scale included
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico and South America
Subject (Topic):
Discoveries in geography, Explorers, Scientific expeditions, and Voyages and travels
