About: Alexander Buchan (artist)     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : yago:Whole100003553, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FAlexander_Buchan_%28artist%29

Alexander Buchan (died 17 April 1769) was a Scottish landscape artist. He is known for his participation in the 1768–1771 first voyage of James Cook aboard HMS Endeavour, where he was one of the artists in the entourage of botanist Joseph Banks. Buchan had from epilepsy. On the journey, he had two documented seizures, the first during an expedition in Tierra del Fuego. Buchan died after the second seizure, shortly after Endeavour's arrival at Tahiti, and was buried at sea. Buchan produced landscapes, coastal views, ethnographic drawings and natural history drawings. He is best known for illustrations of the people of Tierra del Fuego, some of which were engraved for publication in accounts of the voyage. All of his drawings from the voyage were taken by his employer Joseph Banks and are no

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Alexander Buchan (artist) (en)
rdfs:comment
  • Alexander Buchan (died 17 April 1769) was a Scottish landscape artist. He is known for his participation in the 1768–1771 first voyage of James Cook aboard HMS Endeavour, where he was one of the artists in the entourage of botanist Joseph Banks. Buchan had from epilepsy. On the journey, he had two documented seizures, the first during an expedition in Tierra del Fuego. Buchan died after the second seizure, shortly after Endeavour's arrival at Tahiti, and was buried at sea. Buchan produced landscapes, coastal views, ethnographic drawings and natural history drawings. He is best known for illustrations of the people of Tierra del Fuego, some of which were engraved for publication in accounts of the voyage. All of his drawings from the voyage were taken by his employer Joseph Banks and are no (en)
foaf:name
  • Alexander Buchan (en)
foaf:homepage
name
  • Alexander Buchan (en)
foaf:depiction
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Inhabitants_of_Tierra_del_Fuego_Alexander_Buchan_BL_Add_MS_23920.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/A_View_of_the_Indians_of_Tierra_del_Fuego_in_their_hut.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Endeavour_off_the_Coast_of_Tierra_del_Fuego.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oil_portrait_of_Alexander_Buchan,_before_1769.png
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/View_of_a_Village_in_the_Bay_of_Good_Success,_Buchan.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Endeavour's_watering_place_in_the_Bay_of_Good_Success,_Tierra_del_Fuego_-_Drawings_made_in_the_Countries_visited_by_Captain_Cook_in_his_First_Voyage_(1769),_f.11_-_BL_Add_MS_23920.jpg
death place
death place
  • Matavai Bay, Tahiti (en)
death date
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (62 GB total memory, 53 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software