Nine-Pin Rock, Trinidad
Date
1839
Creator
John Robertson (British) , Naval surgeon
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 165mm
width (painting): 204mm
width (painting): 204mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Landscape sketch showing geological features on the coast of Trinidad, including: a trap dyke from which fossil specimens were collected (figure a); the ‘Nine-Pin Rock’ (figure b); and the beach used by the expedition landing party (figure c). 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: “This hasty sketch is affixed as the most remarkable feature of the Island, showing the monument on the western side and the trap dike on the northeasterly.”
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: “This hasty sketch is affixed as the most remarkable feature of the Island, showing the monument on the western side and the trap dike on the northeasterly.”
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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