Conway Shipley b. 1824

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The aptly named Shipley served in the Royal Navy. Sketches he drew while on a voyage in the South Seas are now held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.
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sketcher and travel writer, entered the Royal Navy in 1837 and after distinguishing himself at the Royal Naval College was promoted lieutenant in 1845. In 1848 he served on the 18-gun Calypso during a voyage to various mission stations in the South Seas. In 1851 he published a narrative of the voyage, Sketches in the Pacific: The South Sea Islands , which included 25 coloured lithographs based on his own sketches, some of which are in Mitchell Library.

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1999
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References [<ExternalResource: Shipley, Conway (1851), 'Sketches in the Pacific: The South Sea Islands'.>, <ExternalResource: Hirst, Warwick (2001), 'Painting the Pacific in the Picture Gallery', State Library of New South Wales exhibition guide, p.20.>] [<ExternalResource: Shipley, Conway (1851), 'Sketches in the Pacific: The South Sea Islands'.>]