Globular punchbowl showing track of James Cook's first voyage on HMS Endeavour, probably commissione...
Globular punchbowl showing track of James Cook's first voyage on HMS Endeavour, probably commissione...
Globular punchbowl showing track of James Cook's first voyage on HMS Endeavour, probably commissioned by Joseph Banks, 1772, on stand, 1781
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1772, 1781
Call Numbers
SAFE/LR 122 , Status: On display - Map Rooms
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
1 punchbowl - silver
1 stand - silver
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
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Issue Copy
Digitised
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Engraved silver punchbowl designed as a hollow terrestrial globe, with a lid that opens at the Tropic of Capricorn. Lid is topped by a figure of a reclining Atlas. Globe is righted so that the Southern Hemisphere is uppermost and is engraved with a map showing the discoveries and route of James Cook's 1st voyage in the Endeavour (1769-1771). The pu...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Globular punchbowl showing track of James Cook's first voyage on HMS Endeavour, probably commissioned by Joseph Banks, 1772, on stand, 1781
Variant title
Title devised by Daniel Crouch Rare Books - The Endeavour Globe.
In 2019, the punchbowl was sold at auction by Freeman's with the description 'A rare George III sterling silver globe on stand, 'The Captain Cook Globe''.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
The map engraved on the punchbowl is largely based on information shown in William Whitchurch’s ‘Chart of part of the South Sea’, 1773. This was the first published map to include all of the discoveries of Cook’s Pacific and Australian voyage on one sheet when it appeared in Hawkesworth’s official account of the voyage, ‘An account of the voyages u...
Signature / Inscriptions
Stand hallmarked and dated 'I.R' (mark of John Robins) and 'f' (1781). Also stamped with a lion and leopard's head.
Attributions / Conjectures
The punchbowl does not bear a hallmark. Attributed to Valentine Anscheutz by vendor on basis of a receipt in the Banks Papers held in the Mitchell Library, dated July 3d. 1772, which states 'Received of Mr Banks...from Mr Zoffani is in full for a globular silver punchbowl Val Anscheutz & Co'.
It is uncertain what role Anscheutz played in the...
Object History
The punchbowl was probably commissioned by Joseph Banks prior to July 1772, in anticipation of his participation in James Cook’s Second Voyage on HMS Resolution. Banks possibly sold the punchbowl in 1778 to the Royal Society Club, a dining club of which he was a member. In 1784 when it was decided to reduce the frequency of club meetings a decision...
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Daniel Crouch Rare Books, June 2020
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SAFE/LR 122 , Status: On display - Map Rooms
Record Identifier
1wNr540n
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Other Identifiers
Reference code
9650519
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