A view of Otaheite with several vessels belonging to that island.
Unsigned., At head of image: Engraved for Middleton's Complete system of geography.
- Abstract
- View of several sailboats in the ocean near Tahiti, with a man rowing on a wooden raft near one of the sailboats. A small group is gathered on land in the right foreground, with a fisherman grabbing a fish on the end of his fishing pole line.
- Contributor
- Middleton, Charles Theodore (Contributor)
- Date
- 1777 to 1779
- Department
- Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections
- Dimensions
- image 17 x 27 cm, plate mark 19 x 30 cm, sheet 23 x 37 cm
- Genre
- engravings (prints)
- Last Modified
- 2025-10-27T16:43:15.749971Z
- Language
- English
- Materials
- 1 print : engraving
- Notes
- Title from caption (Local Note)
- Provenance
- Library copy from the library of Donald K. Adams and Lawrence D. Stewart
- Rights Statement
- No Copyright - United States
- Series
- Donald K. Adams and Lawrence D. Stewart Collection of Prints--Middleton, Charles Theodore. A new and complete system of geography
- Source
- Plate from: New and complete system of geography / By Charles Theodore Middleton, esq. assisted by several gentlemen. London : Printed for J. Cooke, 1777-1779.
- Technique
- engraving (printing process)
- Attribution
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