Three voyages round the world, being a complete set of the plates of the three voyages, by J. Webber...
Three voyages round the world, being a complete set of the plates of the three voyages, by J. Webber...
Three voyages round the world, being a complete set of the plates of the three voyages, by J. Webber, W. Hodges and others, ca. 1784-1786 / engraved by F. Bartolozzi and others.
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1784-1786
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXD 59
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures, Watercolours and Prints
Physical Description
Contents
1 album comprising 2 watercolours and 157 prints including proofs of engravings and cancelled plates - 64.2 x 47.5 cm.
4 watercolours on mounts - 76.7 x 56.1 cm.
6 engravings on mounts - 76.7 x 56.1 cm.
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
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Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Contents lists available in volumes and in the Mitchell Library Reading Room.
Alternative Titles
Full title
Three voyages round the world, being a complete set of the plates of the three voyages, by J. Webber, W. Hodges and others, ca. 1784-1786 / engraved by F. Bartolozzi and others.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes
General note
Undated, chiefly unsigned.
Some images have title on print, some have handwritten titles below mount, or on verso.
Bookplate on front endpaper of album.
Newspaper advertisement describing the album pasted on f.1. (Location: PXD 59/1)
Digital order no:Album ID : 874363...
Signature / Inscriptions
PXD 59/1
Opp. f. 1. "The three sets of Plates to Cook's voyages, forming the folio atlases, complete -"
"extra, besides drawings - / The death of Capt Cook large and small plates / Portrait of Omai, full length / Man of New Caledonia, cancelled plate / Man of Mallicolo, cancelled plate / & other variations"
Printed matter on f. 1: receipt...
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by D.S. Mitchell, 1907.
Exhibited in
- Encounters with Paradise : views of Hawaii and its people, 1778-1941
- Captain Cook, R. N., the resolute mariner: an international record of oceanic discovery
Honolulu Academy of Arts (22 January - 22 March, 1992). Applies to: PXD 59/1 f. 1
Oregon Historical Society (January 1974 - January 1975). Applies to: PXD 59/1 f. 6
Administrative / Biographical history
William Hodges (1744-1797): In 1772, probably recommended by a member of the Admiralty Board, Hodges sailed to the Pacific and Antarctic on the Resolution as landscape artist on Captain Cook's second expedition... (Source: Maritime Art Museum, Greenwich (UK), web site, viewed 5/12/2007)
John Webber (1751-1793), Landscape painter, draughtsman on...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXD 59
Record Identifier
n88ELddn
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Other Identifiers
Reference code
457971
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