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ID: 500007103
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500007103

 

Record Type: Person
Buchan, Alexander (British draftsman, died 1769)

Note: Hired by Sir Joseph Banks, scientist, explorer and patron, to assist in recording botanical specimens on a voyage to the South Pacific on board the Endeavour, on Captain James Cook's 1768 voyage.

Names:
Buchan, Alexander (preferred,V,index)
Alexander Buchan (V,display)

Nationalities:
British (modern) (preferred)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
draftsman

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Died:  Tahiti (French Polynesia) (island)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Buchan, Alexander (I)

Biographies:
(British draftsman, died 1769) ..... [VP Preferred]
(British draftsman, d.1769) ..... [BHA]
(British artist, op.18th c.) ..... [WCI]
(British artist, 18th century) ..... [WL-Courtauld]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Alexander Buchan ........ [VP, WL-Courtauld]
..................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Buchan, Alexander ........ [BHA Preferred, VP Preferred, WCI Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
....................................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 14 July 2004
....................................  Witt Computer Index database
....................................  Witt Library, Authority files

Subject: ........ [BHA, VP, WCI, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Beaglehole, Life of Captain Cook (1974)
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 14 July 2004
....................  Lysaght, A. M. Banks's artists and his Endeavour collections, The British Museum Yearbook (1979)
....................  Witt Computer Index database
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 14 July 2004
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