Fossil beds at Santiago
Date
1839
Creator
John Robertson (British) , Naval surgeon
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 110mm
width (painting): 190mm
width (painting): 190mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Landscape sketch showing the geology of cliffs on Santiago [St.Jago], Cape Verde Islands. With a manuscript key to the features shown.
Illustration from the paper “A catalogue of specimens, from Madeira. St. Gago, St. Paul’s Rocks and Trinidad, H.M.S.Terror 6th February 1840” by John Robertson. Not published in the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions.
Inscribed in ink, below: “The fossil cliffs from the anchorage in the bay of Porta Praya, Island of St. Gago. 18th Nov. 1839.”
John Robertson was the surgeon aboard H.M.S.Terror during James Clarke Ross’s Erebus and Terror Antarctic Expedition of 1839-1843.
Illustration from the paper “A catalogue of specimens, from Madeira. St. Gago, St. Paul’s Rocks and Trinidad, H.M.S.Terror 6th February 1840” by John Robertson. Not published in the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions.
Inscribed in ink, below: “The fossil cliffs from the anchorage in the bay of Porta Praya, Island of St. Gago. 18th Nov. 1839.”
John Robertson was the surgeon aboard H.M.S.Terror during James Clarke Ross’s Erebus and Terror Antarctic Expedition of 1839-1843.
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