Period:Unknown Production date:1788
Materials:paper
Technique:soft-ground etching, hand-coloured,
Dimensions:Height: 328 millimetres Width: 448 millimetres
Description:
Landscape with cliffs and boulders to left, among trees, with a man and a little boy to left, walking on the brick pathway fronting the sea, men in a boat to right, a small covered structure on a height in the background and figures on the quay sloping to the sea, on which are erected two banners, beyond to right. 1788 Hand-coloured soft-ground etching
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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.
Materials:paper
Technique:soft-ground etching, hand-coloured,
Dimensions:Height: 328 millimetres Width: 448 millimetres
Description:
Landscape with cliffs and boulders to left, among trees, with a man and a little boy to left, walking on the brick pathway fronting the sea, men in a boat to right, a small covered structure on a height in the background and figures on the quay sloping to the sea, on which are erected two banners, beyond to right. 1788 Hand-coloured soft-ground etching
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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.
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