Tuhituhi : William Hodges, Cook's painter in the South Pacific / Laurence Simmons.
Tuhituhi : William Hodges, Cook's painter in the South Pacific / Laurence Simmons.
Tuhituhi : William Hodges, Cook's painter in the South Pacific / Laurence Simmons.
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Publisher
Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press, 2011.
Date
2011.
Call Numbers
759.2/11
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Language
English
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Physical content
346 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Contents
Aotearoa = New Zealand (Bridging the wild : Tamatea = Dusky Sound, 27-8 March 773 ; Dipt in the tints of the rainbow : Tamatea = Dusky Sound, 12 April 1773 ; A phaenomenon which carried so much terrific majesty in it : Takapourewa = Stephens Island, 17 May 1773) -- Tahiti = Society Islands (Perpetua...
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Publisher
Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press, 2011.
Date Published
2011.
Subjects
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- Australian
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Summary
Tuhituhi follows the geographical and chronological progress of Cook's voyage on the Resolution, for which William Hodges was hired as official artist, a landscape painter. In the Pacific, painters like Hodges found themselves staring again and again in disbelief at landscapes and seascapes that stretched 18th-century conventions of painting (such...
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Tuhituhi : William Hodges, Cook's painter in the South Pacific / Laurence Simmons.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-340) and index.
Mitchell Library copy: Jacket filed 2013.
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759.2/11
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74Vvg8xv4gRZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvg8xv4gRZ
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ISBN
9781877578175
9781877578175 (hbk.) :
1877578177
DDC
996 759.2
MMS ID
991012379259702626
