• Title
  [The Resolution and Discovery in the Arctic Sea, 1781]
• Call number
  Government Printing Office 1 - 47482, Original negative held by State Archives & Records Authority of New South Wales.
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  16/3/1950 (copy of original painting by Thomas Luny dated 1781)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  219523
• Physical Description
  Photographs - Film. 4.25 x 3.25 in. L.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright restrictions may apply: Photographs in this collection fall under Crown Copyright - Date made plus 50 years. Please direct all copyright enquiries to State Archives & Records Authority of New South Wales
• Original held by
  Government Printing Office original negative archive is held at State Archives & Records Authority of New South Wales as NRS 21689 Images [Government Printing Office] & NRS 4481 Glass Negatives. State Library NSW holds a low resolution copy image only. Please direct all enquiries, including image orders from the original negative, to State Archives & Records Authority of New South Wales.
• General note
  
  The original painting is signed and dated at lower left "T. Luny 1781"
  This painting has traditionally been said to depict the Resolution and Adventure in the Southern Ocean (it was so described in the 1928 "Bibliography of Captain James Cook" published by the Public Library of New South Wales). However a comparison with drawings made by John Webber of the activities of the Resolution and Discovery in the Arctic Sea between 11 August - 3 September 1778 (see Bernard Smith & Rodgier Joppien's "The art of Captain Cooks voyages", volume 3, plates, pp.506-513) strongly suggests that it depicts those ships during Captain Cooks' third voyage. At the bottom left of the painting walrus' are visible.
  A Thomas Luny sketchbook held by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, contains three preliminary drawings for the painting. A profile drawing of the Discovery was initially described as the Adventure, before being corrected.
  GPO original locations or series - St38475
  From NSW Govt Printer series - Mitchell Library: copy of an original oil painting by Thomas Luny (call no. for painting is ML 402)
  Digital order no:d1_47482
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Luny, Thomas, 1759-1837
  
• Name
  Discovery (ship : Captain = Charles Clerke)
  Resolution (Ship)
  
• Topic
  paintings
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE2022872

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