Deception of Captain Wallis by Queen Oberea Finish:Float frame seated wearing a robe and

seated wearing a robe and wig and carrying a book

London hugging his horse's neck

View of a sham fight on the Serpentine

he left quite suddenly on 22nd April

rakes and other drunken characters

Deception of Captain Wallis by Queen Oberea Finish:Float frame seated wearing a robe andDeception of Captain Wallis by Queen Oberea, 1820 1839. Scene from Samuel Wallis's voyage of circumnavigation in HMS 'Dolphin', undertaken from 1766 1768. Wallis is pictured at Tahiti, watched by the island's queen, Oberea. Wallis is believed to have been the first European to visit Tahiti, which he sighted on 18th June 1767. Plate 45 from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne by Jules Ferrario.