Portrait of Mr & Mrs Jewell

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Title

Portrait of Mr & Mrs Jewell

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This is a portrait of Joseph and Mary Ann Jewell (née Hewitt), a couple from Victoria, Australia, who had been on the General Grant when it was wrecked off the Auckland Islands in May 1866 en route to London. The couple are wearing the seal skin garments that Mary Ann  and James Teer, a miner, fashioned for the survivors, using needles carved from albatross bone with a penknife. The Jewells and eight others were rescued in November 1867, and landed in Bluff in January the following year. Whe...

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Image

Date created

1868

Creator

Charles Hewitt

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/256059

Related subjects

Mary Jewell / Joseph Jewell / dressmaking / paper / portraits / cartes-de-visite / Shipwrecks / Melbourne

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