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Tasman, Abel Janszoon, 1603 - 1659

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The portraiture of Tasman, 1893 - 1976

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/18
Scope and Contents A typescript 'survey of alleged likenesses of the navigator and discoverer in the Royal Commonwealth Society and elsewhere 1965', 17 pages and 4 attached photographs and portraits. The paper is concerned chiefly with the full-length portrait of Tasman in the R.C.S. and the family group in the National Library of Australia. It is accompanied by related correspondence, 1893-1976; eighteen loose photographs of Tasman and members of his family; and a few notes and press cuttings. There is...
Dates: 1893 - 1976
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