About This Artwork

Baxter, George
English, 1804-1867

Two Specimens of Printing in Oil Colors: One Representing the Reception of the Rev. John Williams at Tanna, in the South Seas; the Other, the Massacre of that Excellent Missionary on the Island of Erromanga, Where he and his friend Mr. Harris became the Proto-Martyrs of Christianity in the South Seas, 1841

Steel engraving on cream wove paper with letterpress, followed by four pages of letterpress, in a buff wove paper wrapper with further letterpress
484 x 291 mm (wrapper, folded)
Gift of Henry M. Huxley, RX20769/2182

Lewis 82a & b