IDNO

P.87221.

Description

F.H. Dufty photograph of Government House, Nasova, near Levuka, Ovalau, with the Dining Room, Drawing Room and Nursery block at an advanced stage of construction. 1875.
A.J.L. Gordon, Captain L.F. Knollys, and Ratu Timoce Tavanavanua are identified, and there is a caption for Captain R.E. Stewart of the Royal Engineers, who is barely visible, standing with a horse against one of the verandah posts in the shade of the tree at left. Some European women in white dresses are standing under the roofed passage leading to the nursery, but are not identified. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

“Dining Room & Lady G’s House. Gov’t House. Nasova.” [von Hügel’s caption on P.100329.VH ]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto paper.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Near Levuka; Nasova

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Arthur J. L. Gordon; Captain Louis F. Knollys; Ratu Timoce (Timoci, Timothy) Tavanavanua; Captain R.E. Stewart

Photographer

Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka)

Collector / Expedition

Date

1875

Collection Name

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.87203 to P.87221 were in the Museum’s paper archive envelope, OA2/5/12, which has now been re-numbered C511/.

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [A. Nadin 2/7/2003]