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Omai, a native of the island of Utietea [i.e. Ulietea] [picture] / painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, engraved by John Jacobi
Bib ID 2036481
Format PicturePicture, OnlineOnline
Author
Jacobe, Johann, 1733-1797
 
Online Versions
Description London (Cheapside) : John Boydell, 1780 Sep. 1 
1 print : engraving, mezzotint ; plate mark 63 x 38.4 cm. 
Collection Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK266.  Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK7043.  Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK4831.  Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK4832. 
Notes

U6877; U6873 imprint varies; U6875 imprint varies; U6876.

Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK266, NK7043, NK4831, NK4832.

Exhibited: Prints and Australia, Australian National Gallery, 1989; Deja vu, NLA, 1989; Visitor Centre 1992.

Subjects Omai - Portraits.  |  Polynesians - Tahiti - Portraits - Early works to 1800.  |  Picture - Bicentennial loan 1989.  |  Picture - NLA exhibition 1989.  |  Picture - NLA exhibition 1992.
Other authors/contributors Boydell, John, 1719-1804  |  Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792. Omai
Exhibited Exhibited:'Cook & Omai: The Cult of the South Seas', NLA 2001 

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