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![[Samoa] Mamoe](jpegs/24036.jpg)
[Samoa] Mamoe A Chief of the Samoan Islands.
Painted by H. Room. Engraved by J. Cochran.
[London, n.d., c.1840s.]
Steel engraving, sheet 195 x 125mm. 7¾ x 5". Sheet a little trimmed; closed tears from lower edge.
A Samoan convert to Christianity, in European dress; holding a book open (almost certainly a Bible) in his right hand. The Samoan Islands or Samoa Islands (formerly referred to as Navigators' Islands) is an archipelago in the central South Pacific, forming part of the Polynesia region.
NLA Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK11653.
[Ref: 24036] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by H. Room. Engraved by J. Cochran.
[London, n.d., c.1840s.]
Steel engraving, sheet 195 x 125mm. 7¾ x 5". Sheet a little trimmed; closed tears from lower edge.
A Samoan convert to Christianity, in European dress; holding a book open (almost certainly a Bible) in his right hand. The Samoan Islands or Samoa Islands (formerly referred to as Navigators' Islands) is an archipelago in the central South Pacific, forming part of the Polynesia region.
NLA Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK11653.
[Ref: 24036] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
![yours after J. Williams [facsimile.]](jpegs/15648.jpg)
yours after J. Williams [facsimile.]
[Henry Room.] Printed in Oil Colours by G. Baxter, (Patentee, 3.Charterhouse Square.)
Published, by J. Snow, 26. Paternoster Row. [n.d. c.1843.]
Bright and vivid oil colouring. 222 x 140mm. 8¾ x 5½".
John Williams (1796 -1839), missionary active in the South Pacific. George Baxter (1804 - 1867) is regarded as the 'Inventor' of colour printing. The Baxter process, which he patented in 1835, involved an initial metal keyplate and up to 20 wood or metal blocks to apply each individual colour. Baxter had published quite a few prints of Williams including his massacre on the island of Erromanga a few days after landing.
[Ref: 15648] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Henry Room.] Printed in Oil Colours by G. Baxter, (Patentee, 3.Charterhouse Square.)
Published, by J. Snow, 26. Paternoster Row. [n.d. c.1843.]
Bright and vivid oil colouring. 222 x 140mm. 8¾ x 5½".
John Williams (1796 -1839), missionary active in the South Pacific. George Baxter (1804 - 1867) is regarded as the 'Inventor' of colour printing. The Baxter process, which he patented in 1835, involved an initial metal keyplate and up to 20 wood or metal blocks to apply each individual colour. Baxter had published quite a few prints of Williams including his massacre on the island of Erromanga a few days after landing.
[Ref: 15648] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![yours aff.y J Williams [facsimile.]](jpegs/28619.jpg)
yours aff.y J Williams [facsimile.]
Painted by H. Room. Engraved by J. Cochran.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple and engraving. 160 x 107mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed.
John Williams (1796-1839), the English missionary who was active in the South Pacific. In November 1839, while visiting a part of the New Hebrides where John Williams was unknown, he and fellow missionary James Harris were killed and eaten by cannibals on the island of Erromango during an attempt to bring them the Gospel.
NPG: D8603. See Ref: 559 & 15648 for coloured Baxter images.
[Ref: 28619] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by H. Room. Engraved by J. Cochran.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple and engraving. 160 x 107mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed.
John Williams (1796-1839), the English missionary who was active in the South Pacific. In November 1839, while visiting a part of the New Hebrides where John Williams was unknown, he and fellow missionary James Harris were killed and eaten by cannibals on the island of Erromango during an attempt to bring them the Gospel.
NPG: D8603. See Ref: 559 & 15648 for coloured Baxter images.
[Ref: 28619] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)