Period:Unknown Production date:1788
Materials:paper
Technique:soft-ground etching, hand-coloured,
Dimensions:Height: 325 millimetres Width: 450 millimetres
Description:
Landscape, showing a large building with a small square tower surrounded by trees, on the slope of a low mountain with other buildings and trees lining the the crest towards the sea, on the right, mountains across the water in the background and a herdsman sitting in the left forergound, his flock grazing behind him. 1788 Hand-coloured soft-ground etching
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Comments:Joppein and Smith quote a remark by Captain King, mentioning a visit in which ‘I was shewn, in a garden belonging to an English gentleman at Macao, the rock, under which, as the tradition goes, the poet Camoens used to sit and compose his Lusiad…’.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.
Materials:paper
Technique:soft-ground etching, hand-coloured,
Dimensions:Height: 325 millimetres Width: 450 millimetres
Description:
Landscape, showing a large building with a small square tower surrounded by trees, on the slope of a low mountain with other buildings and trees lining the the crest towards the sea, on the right, mountains across the water in the background and a herdsman sitting in the left forergound, his flock grazing behind him. 1788 Hand-coloured soft-ground etching
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Comments:Joppein and Smith quote a remark by Captain King, mentioning a visit in which ‘I was shewn, in a garden belonging to an English gentleman at Macao, the rock, under which, as the tradition goes, the poet Camoens used to sit and compose his Lusiad…’.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.
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