Portrait of George Pritchard (Consul to Tahiti)

Oil-colour print by George Baxter [published in 1845] of the British Consul, George Pritchard in uniform. 2 copies, 23cm x 27.5cm, one mounted.

Archive & Special Collections CWM/LMS/01/09/05/02/06 Open

Order number: CWM/LMS/Home/South Seas Pictures/6
Date(s) of creation: [1845]
Level: Item
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.01.09.05.02.06
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/Home/South Seas Pictures/6
callnumber CWM/LMS/01/09/05/02/06
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/01/09/05/02/06
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/01/09/05/02/06
prefix_number 06
scb_previous_numbers 171
title Portrait of George Pritchard (Consul to Tahiti)
scb_date_creation [1845]
scb_level Item
level_sort 8/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File/Item
scb_extent 2 copies
format Archive
scb_admin_history George Pritchard (1796-1883) served as a missionary with the London Missionary Society in Tahiti, South Seas, 1824-1837. He subsequently served as British Consul in Tahiti from 1837, and in Samoa from 1845. George Baxter (1804-1867) was an engraver and printer who invented a process of colour printing that made reproductions of paintings available on a mass scale. He supplied colour illustrations to the publisher George Mudie and produced prints for the London Missionary Society. Baxter's process incorporated the aquatint method and involved superimposing the colours using wooden blocks. Baxter used carefully etched plates, a hand press, and the finest colours, oils and paper. He mixed the colours himself but left no record of their composition. The process quickly gained popularity and was widely useful in producing replications of paintings. [Source: National Portrait Gallery]
scb_custodial_history Copy 171(1) brought from Ware Furlough House in 1962; copy 171(2) donated to the LMS in 1948. Both prints held as part of the LMS Museum (inventory item 171) before being transferred to SOAS Library in January 2008.
description Oil-colour print by George Baxter [published in 1845] of the British Consul, George Pritchard in uniform. 2 copies, 23cm x 27.5cm, one mounted.
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_physc_charac_tech_reqs Both prints are in reasonable condition; some variation in colour.
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0001.0009.0005.0002.0006

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