print
- Museum number
- 1872,0713.551
- Title
- Object: Balagans or Summer Habitations, with the method of Drying Fish at St,, Peter & Paul, Kamschatka
- Description
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A thatched building, at the edge of a river where men are fishing with large nets, behind a thatched hut on stilts and a large frame from which hang fish, with figures working, gathering and storing the fish and a woman and child in the foreground, beside a pot hanging from a tripod over a fire; wooded hills in the background to left. 1792
Hand-coloured soft-ground etching
- Production date
- 1792
- Dimensions
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Height: 322 millimetres
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Width: 448 millimetres
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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. He also published his own prints of drawings he made on the voyages privately, in 1788. Several of the plates were re-published by J Boydell in 1808. 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). For information on the set republished by Boydell, see also Abbey 595.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1872,0713.551