- George Raper]
- Each view is inscribed with a title and navigational information in black ink beneath it. The view at top left is entitled "SALVAGES S:36,,[degrees]00' W Distant 6 or 7 Leagues", at top right "SALVAGES S48,,[degrees]50' W Distant 4 Leagues", and in a panel between them "LAT:d - 30,,12N. & LONG:e". The view at the bottom is titled in the main border "ISLAND of TENERIFFE the PEAK bearing N.W. off Shore 4 Leagues - S.ta CRUIZ ROAD, in Lat:d 28[degrees],,30' N. Long:de 16[degrees],,18' W. of Greenwhich.".
- The drawing is unsigned and undated.
- The drawing is inscribed in pencil at bottom left with the number "6", at top right "5", and on the reverse "14".
- The First Fleet was anchored at Tenerife from 3rd-10th June 1787. Most of the First Fleet journals include descriptions of the visit, for example John White (Chisholm, A.H. (ed.) Journal of a Voyage to New south Wales by John White. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1962 pp.53-59) and Watkin Tench (Flannery, Tim (ed.). Watkin Tench: 1788. The Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, 1996 pp.21-24).
- The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
- By permission of the trustees of the Natural History Museum (London).
- Two sets of transparencies held in the Natural History Museum (London) Zoology Library and Picture Library: Picture Library order number 15106
- Miss Eva Godman donated 1962
- Data sheet available.
- Hindwood, K.A. 'George Raper: an Artist of the First Fleet', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 50, Pt. 1, 1964 pp.32-57.
- Wheeler, A. and Smith, B, (eds.) The Art of the First Fleet and other early Australian Drawings. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988 (pl.93, p.93).
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