http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194347 Sketchbooks from Conrad Martens' voyages, including particularly his time on the Beagle. Wed, 22 May 2013 15:43:13 GMT 2013-05-22T15:43:13Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194459 Title: MS.Add.7984: original cover [back] Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:24:10 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194459 2007-06-14T10:24:10Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194458 Title: MS.Add.7983: original cover (back) Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:24:06 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194458 2007-06-14T10:24:06Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194457 Title: MS.Add.7984: original cover Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:23:58 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194457 2007-06-14T10:23:58Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194456 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:23:51 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194456 2007-06-14T10:23:51Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194455 Title: Tano plant, Tahiti Abstract: A botanical drawing with colouring instructions. Description: "D" [top centre]; "D" [mid left-hand edge]; Drawing. The context surrounding the featured plant is a roughly drawn water's edge, with indications of grass tufts to the right, and a different kind of plant, or a younger specimen of the same plant, to the left. The annotation in the top left reads: "front of the leaf rich dark green back yellow with light veins -- Stalk. same as the back -- Edge of leaf. bright yellow. old leaves, light burnt Siena -- the veins do not show on the front of the leaf but strongly on the back -- The leaf is not flat but wavy --". +++++++++++++++++++++++ Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:23:43 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194455 2007-06-14T10:23:43Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194454 Title: Cottage at Tahiti Abstract: A settlement in a wooded landscape. Description: "D" [top left]; Drawing. The sky contains cumulus clouds in the centre and left, and possibly also cumulo-cirrus in the centre. In the midground, the trees part on the centre left and centre right to give a glimpse of the horizon, which is composed of an even but rocky hill-line with little indication of structure or vegetation on the slopes. The trees to the left of this parting consist of a group of three palms, drawn in detail with coconuts shown on the nearest of the group, and to their right, below a glimpse of the background, a loose group of more distant leafy trees resembling the breadfruit trees of MS.Add.7984: 48. To their right is a dense darker cluster of similar leafy trees, the central members of which are much taller and bigger, to the right of which, below a glimpse of the background in the centre left, a small banana-like shrub is shown. To its right stands a small densely branched and foliated tree, with heavy shade around its base, behind which four palms rise to the top of the picture, with fronds drawn in some detail and an indication of coconuts. Between the trees of the group closest to the viewer, a small banana-like shrub partly obscures the gable aspect of a single-storey building. This has a pitched roof, and is diagonal to the viewer with the gable facing right. It is faced with upright timber or rush wallboarding, with no indication of either windows or entrances. It is set in a fenced enclosure, with further fencing stretching diagonally towards viewer and the left-hand edge of the picture in front of a second similar building. This building is less firmly pencilled, but there is an entrance indicated on the gable end. In front of it in the foreground, a small shrub or sapling tree is growing, with a small rock to its right. On the left a group of palms rises immediately behind the leftmost corner of a second closer stretch of fencing. This is shown in detail as constructed of wooden square-cut uprights joined by four square-cut horizontals to a height of about 1.5m. The fencing stretches diagonally leftwards away from the left-hand corner of the main featured building, then diagonally approaches the viewer to the right-hand corner of the enclosure, with two figures, an adult and a child, approaching it in the centre left. The fencing then turns away from viewer to the right of the main building, into the dark shade of the small dense tree. There is no indication of a gateway on the fencing. In the centre and right of the foreground, in front of the fencing there is low shrubby undergrowth. The shadow on this and the figures and the shade on left-hand edge of the roof of the main building indicate that the sun is shining from in front of and to the right of the viewer. The main featured building within the fenced enclosure is a single-storey structure with a thatched pitched roof, with similarly pitched `gables' where the roofing stretches lower, approximately to the height of the fencing. The main wall, facing diagonally to the left, has central doorway some 3m tall, which is the height of the eaves. There are no other indications of openings. The walls are faced with either upright timber or rush or bamboo-type wallboarding, with two horizontal ligaments at approximate metre intervals. There is what may be a storage box under the thatch overhang at the left-hand corner of the building. There is a human figure to the right of the doorway, of whom only the head and shoulders are visible. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:23:38 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194454 2007-06-14T10:23:38Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194453 Title: View in Papeiti Harbour, Tahiti Abstract: A coastal settlement, showing buildings, with boats and human figures. Description: [tick top centre]; Narrative "Page 494 Vol 3" [bottom left corner]; Drawing. The sky contains indications of cumulus cloud in the right above the horizon line, while in the left of the picture nimbus clouds partly obscure the hilltops. In the background, the distant horizon is formed by lines of rocky hills, whose slopes are sketched in more detail in the centre than in the left or right of the picture. Similar lower slopes closer to the viewer occupy the left and centre of the midground, generally falling in elevation to a saddle in the centre, to the right of which rises a wide rounded low hill with indications of scanty shrubby vegetation on its ridge line. There is a similar but denser cluster of vegetation below the saddle point. These structures slope across the whole width of the picture down to a shoreline, which is depicted in detail with vegetation and single-storey buildings. The leftmost building has five windows indicated on its visible aspect, and a pitched roof shown blank. A small palm-like shrub protrudes from behind it, to the right of which there is a group of four tall palm trees, and an indication of a second small building to their right and a little further back. To its right small leafy trees or bushes are growing, and fencing leads to the third building. The roof of this building shows some indications of its structure, and has three visible windows. Behind this building the slope of the foothills is covered with a scattering of palm trees. In the water to the front and right of the third building lies a two-mast sailing boat facing right, with no sails raised. Its prow is partly obscured by a second boat, similar but seen head-on, and shown with some detail of rigging but no sails. To its left and closer to the viewer, a canoe with upturned stern heads rightwards; we can see two or three seated figures with oars and some cargo. The mast and rigging of the second boat partly obscure the foreshore, on which a large cluster of mixed leafy and palm trees is shown in the centre of the picture. At the right-hand end of this cluster stands a fourth building, diagonal to the viewer, with a pitched roof and an indication of a pair of window or door openings on its larger left aspect. The vegetation to its right is partly obscured by the raised rectangular sail of a single-masted small boat, yet nearer to the viewer than the third boat, but whose hull is depicted very sketchily. A human figure stands at its right-hand end probably manipulating a guyrope. To the right of this boat we can see a fifth building, with a pitched roof and indications of four window or doorway openings on its longer right aspect. In the space to its right to the edge of picture there are indistinct indications of three further low buildings, with a large grouping of palms between and behind them. The water is calm but not smooth; the boats cast shadows or reflections beneath them, as do some of the shoreline treetrunks, but in general the shading is not specific enough to suggest the angle of the sun. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:23:34 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194453 2007-06-14T10:23:34Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194452 Title: Houses on Matu uta, Tahiti Abstract: A coastal settlement, showing buildings in some detail, and also vegetation, domestic items, and small boats. Description: Drawing. The sun is shining from the left and slightly towards the viewer; the sky is mainly blank, though a cloud hangs over the distant horizon of conical hilltops near the left-hand edge of the picture. Below, there are glimpses of the three-masted boat facing left, but almost obscured by leafy shrubs growing in the midground to the left of a building. This building is shown `gable-on', and has a pitched roof and timber uprights. Its width is approximately 6m. It is open sided, each side having five evenly spaced uprights about 2m tall, and larger central uprights supporting the apex of the roof at about 3.5m. The left-hand line of wall uprights is largely obscured by hanging baskets; to the right of these, a figure stands facing towards the interior of the building. One seated figure in the interior faces right, another by the third wallpost from the right sits facing left, and there is a child standing in the centre of the building. Various small objects are sketched indistinctly within the interior. A basket hangs midway along the right-hand side on a thin horizontal crossbeam at walltop height. Behind and to the right of this building there are palm trees, whose fronds are drawn as if indicating a wind blowing from the left; they rise above some shrubby undergrowth. The shadow of the front right-hand corner of the building suggests that the sun is shining from the left. In front of the building on level ground, a mat is spread, measuring approximately 6m x 1m, and annotated: "mat". Its left-hand front corner is upturned, or may be supporting a small object or a crawling baby. A smaller and simpler building is indicated to the right of the bushes and the fully-visible palm tree in the centre, comprising just a pitched roof of battens and thatch which reaches to the ground, its apex supported by central uprights, only the frontmost of which is visible. A storage jar is visible within it. To its right there is a pair of palm trees, and two beached canoes, one obscuring most of the other. Behind these we can see a strip of water and a lightly sketched far shore lined with palms and other smaller vegetation, in front of a gently sloping ridge, behind which a similarly sloping horizon line is visible. In the right foreground there are what may be spherical storage jars or large rounded stones next to a clump of shrubby undergrowth, which is composed of a mixture of oval-leaved, frond-leaved and taller leafy plants. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:23:29 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194452 2007-06-14T10:23:29Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194451 Title: The Queen Pomare's house, Matu uta, Tahiti Abstract: A settlement, with buildings in some detail, vegetation, and human figures. Description: Drawing. The sky contains indistinct indications of a few clouds in the centre and right of the picture; the sun is shining from the right and slightly towards the viewer. The annotation in the top left reads: "ito trees", written within the crowns of a line of three or four many-stemmed sparsely branching and sparsely foliated tall trees. On the rightmost `ito tree' in the centre of the picture, some net storage bags are hanging low on the trunks, and to the right of its base, a pile of coconuts or other spherical items lies on the ground. The trees emerge from between two buildings, the smaller left-hand one having a thatched pitched roof which extends in parts to ground level. The walls show some indications of diagonal timber wallboards, but are mostly obscured by a small palm-like shrub, below which there are three broadly spherical storage vessels to the left of a very small shrub. The second building is very substantial and more ornate. It occupies the centre left to the centre right of the picture. Its pitched roof is constructed of battens and thatch, some of which hangs over at the eave-ends and from the gable inclines. The wall on the left-hand aspect shows indications of upright timber wallboarding, while that on the right-hand aspect contains a doorway of approximately 3m in the middle beneath the apex of the roof, and is composed of diagonal matting somewhat following the pitches of the roof. Two human figures are about to enter through the door. To the right of this building, small leafy trees fill the space towards the edge of picture. The foreground is relatively smooth and even; on the left a seated figure in a broad rimmed hat faces the viewer. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:23:23 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194451 2007-06-14T10:23:23Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194450 Title: Tounoa Abstract: A river inlet and valley landscape. Description: Drawing. The sky contains occasional indications of thin low cloud around and between jagged and very uneven hilltops that form the horizon. In the midground, the lower slopes are heavily wooded, the trees being nearly all leafy, though three palm crowns protrude in the centre and centre right; one taller and more prominent tree on the left may be a breadfruit. In the left foreground--midground we see the bank of a tidal inlet or river, with indications of a rocky bed and lines of fast-flowing water. The watercourse curves leftward then rightward from the centre of the picture to fill the whole foreground. The bank on the right is similar to that on the left, but is sketched in much less detail. To the right of the picture, shading on a rock in the left foreground suggests that the sun is shining from behind and to the right of Martens' vantage point. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:23:19 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194450 2007-06-14T10:23:19Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194449 Title: Papeiti Harbour Abstract: An island land/seascape, with vegetation, boats, seabirds and a human figure. Description: [tick, top centre]; "Distant view of Moorea from Tahiti" [top right]; Drawing. The sky is mainly blank, though there are indications of cumulus and/or nimbus clouds close to the horizon. The horizon shows the line of the jagged hills of Tahiti, faintly sketched but indicating slopes at 45--60. These formations occupy the left to the centre right of the picture, disappearing behind a darkly pencilled small verdant island on which many tall palms protrude from lower mixed vegetation. To its right the horizon consists of open sea to the right-hand edge of the picture. By the left-hand edge of the island a boat is shown, probably single-masted, head-on to the viewer. In the centre left in calm but not smooth seawater, a substantial sailing boat with three main masts and a horizontal prow mast is depicted in some detail with rigging but not showing sails. It faces right and is seen side-on; seven portholes are discernible, and possibly a small dinghy alongside below the central mast, and another behind the stern. In the centre foreground in choppier water, a canoe heads rightwards, laden with cargo, and being punted by a gondolier-like figure standing in the stern. There are two seabirds flying to its right. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:23:16 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194449 2007-06-14T10:23:16Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194448 Title: Tabuna, Tahiti Abstract: A shoreline landscape, showing vegetation, seabirds, boats and human figures. Description: [tick, top centre right]; Drawing. The sky is blank. A shore with a wide beach occupies the whole foreground, and recedes from the left near-midground into the centre near-background, with some indication of high tide detritus lines. There is a fallen palm branch in the foreground at the left-hand edge of the picture; further away from the viewer, a fallen palm trunk blocks the whole beach. The foreshore to the left of the beach contains much mixed vegetation; in the group closest to the viewer a phormium, yucca or cordyline-like shrub stands in front of a clump of leafy bushes or small trees, from which some half dozen tall palms protrude. The tallest of these leans towards the beach. The rest of the shoreline is similar, but sketched with decreasing clarity as the distance from the viewer increases. In the centre right of the foreground a small rock or possibly bundle of seaweed protrudes from the calm surface of the sea. A seabird flies above this feature, three others flying in a more distant group behind it. The horizon in the centre consists of low distant rocky hills. To their right a substantial distant sailing boat faces the shore, with two masts and some indication of rigging but no sails visible. To the right of this boat the horizon is the open sea, with some indication of a distant reef, annotated: "reef". Interrupting the horizon in the right and centre right, a closer sailing boat with a single mast and raised rectangular sail approaches the shore, with indications of seated people and/or cargo aboard. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:23:09 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194448 2007-06-14T10:23:09Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194447 Title: View on the South side of Moorea, south side Abstract: A volcanic island landscape, showing shorelines, vegetation, buildings, small boats, and human figures. Description: Drawing; watercolour development sold to FitzRoy R d1836.01.28; reproduced facing Narrative 2: 517. "Page 517 Vol 2." [top left corner]; [top centre left, tick]; [top centre to centre right] "Moua roa or High Mountain."; [bottom left corner] "Painted for Capt F" FitzRoy; The sky is filled in the centre with cumulus and cumulo-cirrus clouds; the sun is shining from the left perpendicular to the line of sight. From the centre to the right a bank of cumulo-nimbus hangs over an unevenly level but jagged mountain top which forms the horizon line. It shows indications of vertical upper faces but none of vegetation. The ridge-line falls abruptly into the centre of the picture, then more gently to disappear behind another ridge-line belonging to a closer verdant hillside, behind which an abruptly conical rock rises to the same visual height as the horizon line. The closer verdant hillside falls away rightwards to form a saddle in the right centre. In the centre left, its ridge-line is flatter, but then rises steeply to form a rocky hilltop in the left of the picture. All the lower slopes descend diagonally rightwards, and show indications of shrubby ground cover, with a very few groups of taller palms protruding. To the right a conical hill rises from the saddle in the centre right, but not high enough to reach the horizon. All these surfaces slope in the midground down to a shoreline running across the whole picture, heavily lined with clusters of palm trees, interspersed with some low shrubby vegetation; the shoreline is more distant towards the right-hand edge of the picture. Some single-storey buildings are indicated just left of centre, in the centre right, and at the right-hand edge. In the centre right there is a small canoe facing right, with a human figure standing gondolier-like in the stern, and another reclining figure or some cargo towards the prow. The water is calm, and is heavily shadowed along the whole shoreline; the annotation at the base reads: "--tatiri". Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:23:03 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194447 2007-06-14T10:23:03Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194446 Title: [Unidentified scene] Abstract: A scantily indicated shoreline landscape, with vegetation. Description: Drawing. The sky is blank. Forming the horizon in the centre left of the picture, a distant jagged hill [hill 1] rises, with abrupt near-vertical sides. There is a lower small conical hill to its right, in front of which across the whole picture stretches another line of elevated land closer to the viewer, and lower than hill 1 to its left. The ridge-line of this arcs below hill 1, rising again to its right to join with an abrupt near vertical rockface which rises in the centre right of the picture. This formation reaches a jagged but in general level surface towards the right-hand edge of the picture, at the same visual height as hill 1. There is very little indication of other structure or of vegetation in any of these hilly features. In the midground from the centre to the right, the lower slopes bear indications of structure and vegetated surfaces. There is one small abrupt outcrop near the right-hand edge of the picture. In the nearer midground the centre of the picture is occupied by mixed woodland of palms and leafy trees, which form the backdrop to a vaguely indicated shoreline, annotated: "beach", which continues to the right-hand edge of the picture, where the shrubs and trees on the foreshore are indicated in silhouette only. The left foreground is blank. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:23:01 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194446 2007-06-14T10:23:01Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194445 Title: Valley of Apunohu, Moorea Abstract: A river estuary landscape with vegetation. Description: Darwing. The sky is blank. In the left background, a steep hillside with little indication of structure or vegetation falls from the top left-hand corner of the picture behind a closer pointed and jagged hill in the left centre. This closer hill bears indications of some abrupt dark upper vertical faces and lower steep but verdant slopes; these lead directly down to the water's edge on the far shore of an inlet. In the centre of the background, a distant conical hill is faintly outlined, leading in the centre and right of the picture to a jagged but level hill-line. Much of this is obscured in the centre and right by the vegetation growing in the midground and foreground on the nearside shore of the inlet, with a mix of leafy and palm trees, sketched increasingly indistinctly towards the right-hand edge of the picture. Near the right-hand edge, a tall more firmly pencilled palm rises from implied undergrowth. The nearside shore of the inlet widens towards the viewer, the water's edge sweeping back leftwards to the left centre, while the high tide line meanders into the bottom right-hand corner of the picture. The sun is shining perpendicularly to the line of sight from the right, and there is much shadow under the trees in the centre and on the water to their left. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:22:53 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194445 2007-06-14T10:22:53Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194444 Title: View at the head of the Harbour of Papetoai Harbour Abstract: A shoreline panorama, including a small boat; with colouring instructions. Description: "Copied for Capt F" FitzRoy; "P 509. Vol 2." [top left corner 52v]; Drawing, double page panorama; reproduced facing Narrative 2: 509. On 52v the sky contains vague indications of clouds, mainly cumulus. The horizon is distant to the left, faintly showing the unevenly level contours of a line of rocky hills, with some indication of vertical brows. Lower gentler but still rocky slopes fall diagonally leftwards. The right-hand edge of this block falls away sharply behind a central lower rounded hill with little indication of structure. A fin-shaped small hilltop protrudes behind the right-handand slope of the central hill. The lower slopes all lead down to a shore, lined with mainly leafy bushes and trees with the occasional tall palm protruding. This shoreline gradually approaches closer to the viewer across the rest of the folio, the trees being sketched in increasing detail. Behind the shore, from the centre to the centre right of the folio, a verdant hillside rises at 45, climbing to a more level top at the right-hand edge. Behind the middle portion of the 45 rise, we can recognise the abrupt and rough conical hilltop shown in MS.Add.7984: 52. The water is calm, with some indication of shadows from the centre to the right of the picture. In the left foreground, a near foreshore is implied by the existence of vegetation, which is a mix of grass tufts, rushes and small shrubs. In the centre foreground, we see a sailing boat, which may be made of rushes, with an upturned stern and a pointed prowboard facing right. In the prow a mast leans towards the stern; guy ropes are shown, including two attached to cantilevers projecting from the near side of the boat, but no sails. On 53r, the foreground continues the expanse of calm water. The centre and right of the foreground is occupied by a beach, annotated: "white sand", in which a palm bearing coconuts is shown, with a smaller palm-like bush or fern with other hosta-like shrubby undergrowth surrounding its base; the leaves and fronds of this group are drawn in some detail. The shoreline in the centre right sweeps back leftwards from the foreground into the midground, and is heavily covered with low trees whose foliage resembles the breadfruit trees of MS.Add.7984: 48, passing from there in the midground into 52v, where palms protrude here and there above other bushy trees. On the left, 53r continues the descending line of the verdant hillside from 52v, as it falls away to reveal another similar slope behind it, which in turn falls away to the centre left, then slowly rises again towards the centre right, where it is obscured by the crown of the palm tree further to the right. Conical hilltops are outlined against the sky in the centre, the lower points on that contour allowing glimpses of more distant conical and/or rounded hilltops. The sky is blank. The apex of the curve of the water between the foreground and the midground is heavily shadowed; other shadings also suggest that the sun is shining from the right. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:22:51 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194444 2007-06-14T10:22:51Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194443 Title: Cook's Harbour, Eimeo or Moorea, Papetoai Abstract: A hilly landscape surrounding an inlet, with colouring instructions. Description: Drawing. The sky contains cumulus and possibly cumulo-nimbus clouds over the horizon hills, with some indication of cumulo-cirrus to the right; the sun is shining from behind and to the left of the viewer. Jagged rocky hill and ridge lines, all faintly pencilled, fall away from the left to the centre of the picture to reveal a more distant horizon of hills whose faint shading suggests vertical upper faces. The lower but still steep slopes show indications of vegetation. The slopes descend into the centre left to centre of the midground, down to the water's edge in the harbour. Here one sailing boat is visible, its sails not raised, facing diagonally leftwards in calm water. The land in front of the harbour rises steadily from the foreground into the midground from the left centre of the picture rightwards, reaching horizon-level in the centre right, thereafter flattening off; a single narrowly conical rocky peak protrudes from further away near the right-hand edge of the picture. There are palm trees near the water's edge in front of the inlet, and on the lower slopes in the centre foreground, the latter appearing to rise out of other shrubby undergrowth. There are other indications of scanty vegetation on the ridge lines and in a cleft which descends diagonally into the right-hand corner. In the left foreground, there is a rocky outcrop with shrubby vegetation with oak-like leaves clinging to it. The annotation on the right reads: "on the nearest water -- are some touches of emerald green shore light brown into lightest yellow sand -- the light sand shews at parts on the opposite side.--" Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:22:42 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194443 2007-06-14T10:22:42Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194442 Title: Papetoai Abstract: A shoreline and human settlement. Description: Drawing, double page panorama. 50v continues the midground--background features of 51r almost to the centre of the folio. An open but not calm sea horizon here is annotated: "reef". To its right a faintly outlined foreshore has a line of some half dozen distant palms, and a cluster of some half dozen closer palms, growing along it. At the right-hand edge of the folio, lower shrubby vegetation grows in front of a rising hill line. The annotation below reads: " white sandy beach". On 51r, the hill line continues, faintly outlined, and rising evenly to a high point in the centre right, from where it falls quickly out of sight behind the crowns of palm trees. On the lower slopes vertical surfaces and clefts are indicated by slight shading, and lower-level vegetated slopes descend to the far shoreline. In the centre left of the midground a small boat with a single curved mast and raised sail faces rightwards in calm water; a human figure stands in the stern, with another seated to the immediate right of the mast. In the centre right of the midground to the right-hand edge of the picture, the nearer shoreline is covered with a mix of low-growing leafy trees or shrubs, giving way to the right to tall palms, whose fronds are sketched in some detail. Beneath the vegetation, three pitched-roof single-storey buildings are visible, all shown `gable-on' to the viewer; the second from the left partly obscures the leftmost; the rightmost is larger and detached. Fencing divides these structures from the beach, which runs diagonally from left to right towards the viewer to an apex in the centre right of the picture, from where it turns quickly to sweep back leftwards into the bottom left-hand corner of the folio. In the centre to centre right of the foreground a fallen palm, still with fronds attached, blocks the whole beach; behind it at the water's edge, is a group of human figures, two standing either side of a third who is bending over to the right. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:22:40 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194442 2007-06-14T10:22:40Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194441 Title: The church, Papetoai Abstract: A church on a wooded foreshore. Description: Drawing. The church is the main midground feature, seen at some distance on the far shoreline of a small bay of calm water, Martens' vantage point being the nearside shoreline. The church has a steeply pitched roof, and is apparently hexagonal, each of the three visible faces having three windows or doors with small openings above them. Behind the church, vegetation consisting mainly of palm trees runs from the centre left to the right-hand edge of the picture. In amongst this vegetation, in the centre right, there is a small single-storey pitched roof building, and at the right-hand edge a further bigger building with a steeper pitched and taller roof, whose outer eaves seem to extend to ground. In the shallow water of the bay, a human figure stands fishing with a long harpoon, facing left. To the left of the church the shoreline ends or passes back out of sight, allowing a line of sight to a more distant horizon, which rises steadily across the whole picture from open water at the left-hand edge. In the distance on the left there may be a boat, lying head-on to the viewer. The horizon proceeds via a rising shoreline with an impression of some half dozen trees, probably palms, to a rockier contour with little indication of either structure or vegetation. The sky contains some vague indications of cumulus clouds in the centre left and centre. At the right near the water's edge a tall palm is shown, with fronds bending to suggest a wind blowing from the left. The shadows in the picture are not specific enough to indicate the angle of the sun. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:22:31 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194441 2007-06-14T10:22:31Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194440 Title: South Sea Academy -- Revd J Simpson, J (Rev) Abstract: A building depicted in detail, with farm animals, and vegetation. Description: Drawing. The sky is obscured by tree tops, which resemble the breadfruit trees of the previous picture. The background, especially visible in the centre and right, is formed of rocky tall hills, the main one stretching from the centre to the right of the picture, with indications of steep slopes covered with vegetation. The main feature of the picture, filling the centre left to the right of the midground, is a long single-storey pitched roof building, thatched in a pattern of rectangles. The wall is white with a narrow covered veranda along its whole length, and has a doorway with steps in front of it slightly to the left of the midpoint. There are seven rectangular windows to the left and nine to the right of the door; low bannisters fronting the veranda run from the top of the steps below the first four windows on each side. The windows appear to have either horizontally slatted shutters or bars across them. A pathway leads directly from the steps to the centre of the base of the picture, lined both sides with small shrubs. At the midpoint on the right-hand side of the path, a tree grows, slightly leaning to the right, with a couple of what look like pigs to its right. A less distinctly drawn tree rises to the right of the building at the right-hand edge of the picture, behind which there is an indistinct mix of vegetation, together with some fencing. The situation is similar to the left of the building, in front of which there is a loose grouping of some half dozen trees, the nearest leaning to the right. The whole of the foreground terrain is flat and even. A group of three poultry birds is indistinctly indicated in the shade of the nearest tree to the left-hand end of the building. The sun is shining from the left perpendicular to the line of sight. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:22:24 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194440 2007-06-14T10:22:24Z