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Bay at St. Paul's Rocks

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Date

1839

Artist

John Robertson (active 1830s-1840s)

Collection

The Royal Society

Description

Landscape sketch showing a ship’s boat rowing into the natural bay formed by the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago [St. Paul’s Rocks], the Brazilian islands in the central Atlantic Ocean. Illustration from the paper “A catalogue of specimens, from Madeira. St. Gago, St. Paul’s Rocks and Trinidad, H.M.S.Terror 6th February 1840” by John Robertson. Not published in the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions.