print
- Museum number
- 1841,0313.60
- Title
- Object: A Woman of Nootka Sound
- Description
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A woman with chin-length hair, bust facing front wearing a fringed cape with fur around the neck and a domed hat decorated with fish with a point; plate 39 in Cook's Voyage to the Pacific; after Webber. 1784
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1784
- Dimensions
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Height: 303 millimetres
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Width: 240 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- John Webber was the official artist on Cook's final voyage through the Pacific; his drawings formed the basis for printed illustrations to the account of the voyage 'A Voyage to the Pacific', published in 1784, engraved by various artists. For more information, including details on the publication of Cook's Voyages, see: Joppien, Rüdiger and Smith, Bernard 'The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages', 3 Vols. (Yale UP 1988).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1841
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1841,0313.60