Scope and Contents
Fifty-eighty pages of sepia drawings (12" x 6"), with captions and dates. The drawings give latitude and longitude, and appear to be competent renderings of coast profiles. The places featured include the Cape Verde Islands, Trinidad, Table Bay (including plan), Ceylon, Malaya and the East Indies, Macao, Sunda Straits, St Helena, Ascension and Britain. Some of the profiles, including those for Cape Town, Macao and Jamestown, St Helena, give details of buildings. None are signed, but several are inscribed 'taken by Mr Hodgson'.
Dates
- Creation: 1783-12-30 - 1785-06-06
Creator
- Hodgson (fl 1783-1785) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
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Biographical / Historical
The profiles were made on the 'Ponsborne', an East Indiaman, which voyaged to Madras and Whampoa and back under the command of William Hammett, 26 September 1783 - 6 July 1785. Although no 'Hodgson' is listed in the crew, the purser was John B. Hodson.
Extent
0.003 cubic metre(s) (1 album) : art work
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
Case A18
Other Finding Aids
Donald H. Simpson, ed., 'The manuscript catalogue of the library of the Royal Commonwealth Society' (London, 1975), p. 51.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased 1909.
Existence and Location of Copies
Two images from this album were digitised for the online exhibition, 'Celebrating 150 years of the Royal Commonwealth Society (1868-2018)'. The images can be seen on Cambridge Digital Library by following the digital object links.
General
This collection level description was created by RAS.
Originator(s)
Hodgson, -, fl 1783-1785
Geographic
- Africa (continent)
- Ascension (dependency)
- Asia (continent)
- Cape Town (inhabited place)
- Cape Verde (nation)
- East Indies (general region)
- Europe (continent)
- Great Britain (island)
- Indonesia (nation)
- Jamestown (inhabited place)
- Macau (dependent state)
- Malay Peninsula (peninsula)
- North and Central America (continent)
- Saint Helena (dependent state)
- Saint Helena (island)
- South Africa (nation)
- Sri Lanka (nation)
- Sunda, Selat (strait)
- Table Bay (bay)
- Trinidad (island)
- Trinidad and Tobago (nation)
- United Kingdom (nation)
- Western Cape, Province of the (province)
- Date
- 2005-09-16 09:32:07+00:00
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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