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Bounty Enters Matavai Bay, Otaheite. (a painting by John Hagan) |
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John Hagan's Bounty Chronicles
with his Catalog of Bounty Paintings. Introduction.
While visiting the Pitcairn Islands Study Center - Pacific Union College I came across the following note below a portrait of Capt. William Bligh: "From the 'Bounty Chronicles' (by John Hagan), 28 original oil paintings depicting characters and scenes of the HMAV Bounty. Currently unavailable." Having prior experience in working with websites that had gone dark I started a search for Mr. Hagan's 'Bounty Chronicles' and his "28 original oil paintings". While I eventually located the files I was seeking, it required searching through the following URLs on archive.org's Wayback Machine:
The pages that follow are my attempt to recreate the "Bounty Cronicle" pages as they originally appeared. Some obvious typographical errors have been corrected and some limited stylistic changes have been made. The The Bounty Chronicles. pages probably remain very close to their originals. Nineteen of Hagan's images (some as only details) appear in this collection of pages. Hagan's The Bounty Catalog of paintings. contains 38 of the 40 works said to exist. It is the one place where all (or almost all?) of his paintings appear in one place. The The 'Bounty Chronicles' Original Fine Arts Collection.* features 28 of Hagans Bounty paintings that were being offered as miniature reproductions with sales handled through the Pitcairn Islands Study Center store. These pages once appeared on the Center's website. The last collection of pages are an abbreviated catalog Mr. Hagan possibly created to market prints of his Bounty paintings. The page itself has the title: Paintings: 'Bounty' Volumes 1 & 2. Some of the 24 paintings are noted in the following way: "In the 'Bounty' collection at the Pacific Union College, Angwin CA." This is possibly an incomplete effort because many paintings have a note indicating an image detail is available, but none have been found. Tom Tyler
July 11, 2022
The Bounty Chronicles.
(15 pages and 19 images (excl. Catalogue)
The Bounty Catalog of paintings.
(40 pages and 38 images)
The 'Bounty Chronicles' Original Fine Arts Collection.*
(36 pages and 29 images)
Paintings: 'Bounty' Volumes 1 & 2.
(26 pages and 25 images) *This collection of Hagan paintings has been repackaged by Christian Wirth in a single web page with the title "Bounty - Captain Bligh und Fletcher Christian". |
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Source.
These pages have been retrieved from pages archived by the Wayback Machine. The dates of the archived pages vary, but generally come from the period 2000 to 2010.
Last updated by Tom Tyler, Denver, CO, USA, Jul 11 2022.
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