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Last Name Shipley

Given Name Conway Mordaunt

alt. Names C. M. S. ; Captain Shipley ;

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Year born 1824

Year died 1888

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Education trained as British marine officer ; amateur artist ;

Country of Activity French Polynesia

Worked for C. M. S.: Sketches in the Pacific. The Sourth Sea Islands, drawn from nature and on stone (London 1851) ;

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Techniques anthropological, ethnographical, and topographical painting, pen-and-ink, watercolour, and lithography ;

Sample(s) www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/re-enacting-art-and-travel ; www.flickr.com/photos/30593522@N05/7107188037/in/set-72157628109738982;

Archival sources

Published sources G. Quilley: British naval draughtsmen in Tahiti & South Pacific in the 1840s, in: Journal of Historical Geography 43 (2014): 72-84 ; The invention of paradise Tahiti and the Marquesas ; Biographical Memoir of the late Conway Shipley: 345-424 ;

other Further samples: www.christies.com/lotfinderimages/d55489/conway_mordaunt_shipley_an_album_comprising_158_watercolours_of_india_d5548946h.jpg .

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