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 ...
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...
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
The collection consists of watercolor sketchbooks and scrapbooks created and compiled by Henry Duncan Grant while he traveled in Europe, North America, South America, and Asia as an officer in the Royal Navy, 1866-1896, and with his family. Grant tra...
Description:
Henry Duncan Grant (1834-1896) served in the Royal Navy from 1847 until his death. Grant rose through the ranks to become an admiral by 1892.
Subject (Geographic):
Africa, Asia, Canada, Western, Europe, North America, South America, and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Grant, Agnes Harriet Elizabeth., Grant, Henry Duncan, 1834-1896., Mulloy, O. F., Williams, Sybil., and England and Wales. Royal Navy
