Inhabitants of Amsterdam-Island in the South Seas, with some of their small vessels : viz. 1. A fishing proa-- 2. A vessel with a sail at anchor. 3. A vessel without a sail at anchor.
Lettered within top of frame: Engraved for Middleton's Complete system of geography.
- Abstract
- Set within a decorative frame, a portrait of two men and two women, with three boats behind them.
- Contributor
- Middleton, Charles Theodore (Contributor)
- Date
- 1778 to 1779
- Department
- Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections
- Dimensions
- plate mark 29 x 17 cm, sheet 37 x 23 cm
- Last Modified
- 2025-10-27T16:43:15.749971Z
- Language
- English
- Materials
- 1 print : etching and 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
- Middleton's Complete system of geography
- Subject
- Fishing boats, Boats and boating, Terres australes et antarctiques françaises--Amsterdam Island
- Technique
- engraving (printing process), etching (printing process)
- Attribution
- Courtesy of Northwestern University Libraries, The works on this web site, from material in the collections of the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections of Northwestern University Libraries, are provided for use by its students, faculty and staff, and by other researchers visiting this site, for research consultation and scholarly purposes only. Further distribution and/or any commercial use of the images from this site is not permitted.