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CWM/LMS/Home/South Seas Pictures/14
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Full title reads, "Two Specimens of Printing in Oil Colours: one representing the Reception of the Rev John Williams at Tanna, in the South Seas; the other, the Massacre of that Excellent Missionary on the Island of Erromanga, where he and his friend Mr Harris became the Proto-Martyrs of Christianity in the Australian Seas. Executed by George Baxter, Inventor and Patentee. With a description, by J. Leary, one of the survivors of the massacre; and an account of the islands [Tanna and Erromanga] when visited by Captain Cook and Captain Dillon. Published by the Patentee, George Baxter, 3 Charterhouse Square, London, 1841". Thought to have been given away with purchases of the prints.
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1 item
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| Acquisition: |
Photocopy of an original document held in the Mitchell Library [?], Australia. The copy was given to the London Missionary Society by Professor J. E. Davidson, Professor of Pacific History, Canberra University, August 1956, and later transferred to SOAS Library.
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| Access status: |
Open
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| Language: |
English
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| Related material: |
For copies of the two colour prints, "The Reception of the Rev J. [John] Williams, at Tanna, in the South Seas, the day before he was massacred", and "The Massacre of the Lamented Missionary the Rev. J. [John] Williams and Mr Harris", see South Seas Pictures/12 and 13. |
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Archive
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