print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1940,0810.19
- Title
- Object: The Landing at Middleburgh, one of the Friendly Isles
- Description
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Illustration to Cook's 'A Voyage towards the South Pole' (1777, volume I, plate LIV, f. p. 192); Cook standing in a small rowing boat, leaning on his gun, with the Tongan chieftain Tioonee standing in front of him, holding up a plantain leaf, approaching the shore of Eua, where men, women and children are gathered, offering armloads of fruit to barter, with a thatched building under trees, on a hill to right, with small rocks and bushes in the right foreground, palm trees and the Resolution in the background to left; after Hodges; published state.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1777
- Dimensions
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Height: 267 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 491 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See comment in scratched-letter state, 1868,1212.396.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: A Voyage towards the South Pole
- Acquisition date
- 1940
- Acquisition notes
- Given by Miss C F D'Oyley
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1940,0810.19
