Bay at St. Paul’s Rocks
Date
1839
Creator
John Robertson (British) , Naval surgeon
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 150mm
width (painting): 204mm
width (painting): 204mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Landscape sketch showing a ship’s boat rowing into the natural bay formed by the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago [St. Paul’s Rocks], the Brazilian islands in the central Atlantic Ocean.
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, above: “The followind sketch is intended to show the appearance of the Rocks of St. Paul, within a small inlet, which divide them into two nearly equal parts”.
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, above: “The followind sketch is intended to show the appearance of the Rocks of St. Paul, within a small inlet, which divide them into two nearly equal parts”.
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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