print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1957,0705.15
- Title
- Object: A young woman of the Sandwich Islands
- Description
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A young woman, head and shoulder to front, head turned three-quarter to right, looking towards the viewer, wearing a gown which falls away from her right shoulder, wearing a feathered rings in her short hair and around her neck; illustration to Cook's Voyage to the Pacific; after Webber. 1784
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1784
- Dimensions
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Height: 290 millimetres
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Width: 227 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. 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).
See 1887,0722.180 for another impression.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Voyage to the Pacific (plate 63)
- Acquisition date
- 1957
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1957,0705.15