Original Sketches, Drawings, Maps etc Collected by Admiral Isaac Smith / drawings and watercolours,...
Original Sketches, Drawings, Maps etc Collected by Admiral Isaac Smith / drawings and watercolours,...
Original Sketches, Drawings, Maps etc Collected by Admiral Isaac Smith / drawings and watercolours, mainly of Captain Cooks Second Voyage (1772-1775) by William Hodges, Henry Roberts etc
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Date
1768 - 1775
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXD 11
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Physical Description
Contents
1 album (disbound, 88 drawings, 1 engraving and cover) - album 49 x 70 cm
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Fonds
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955.
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Contents
VOLUME 1
ia -- COOK, JAMES - A Plan of the Harbour of St Johns in Newfoundland.
ib -- COOK, JAMES - A Plan of the Harbour of Croque in Newfoundland.
ii -- COOK, JAMES - Four profiles of the coast of Terra del Fuego, a Plan of Success Bay in Strait le Maire and a Chart of the S.E. part of Terra del Fuego.
iii -- COOK, JAMES- Sketches of...
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Full title
Original Sketches, Drawings, Maps etc Collected by Admiral Isaac Smith / drawings and watercolours, mainly of Captain Cooks Second Voyage (1772-1775) by William Hodges, Henry Roberts etc
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
For detailed analysis of the contents and provenance of this album see Rudiger Joppien & Bernard Smith, The Art of Captain Cooks voyages The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1985, particularly pages 122-125.
On Exhibition: Cook 15/3/89 - 17/7/89
Digital order no:Album ID : 823696
Album disbound in 1984. Original album cover kept with drawings....
Signature / Inscriptions
Titled in ink, by Canon Bennett, in original album 'Original Sketches, Drawings, Maps etc Collected by Admiral Isaac Smith. Who served as an Officer under Captain James Cook, the Circumnavigator in his First & Second Voyages. Ad. 1768-1775'
On front flyleaf of original album cover ""Fredk Bennett. The Vicarage. Shrewton-cum-Maddington: Wilts...
Contextual Information
Source
This album was originally owned by Elizabeth Cook, Captain James Cook's wife. It passed from her to her executor, John Leach Bennett, to his children and other family members. The album was exhibited, with other Cook realia, in the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886, lent by the Rev. Canon Bennett. At the time of the exhibition the NSW Governme...
Exhibited in
- Dare to know : the art and science of Pacific voyages
- William Hodges
- Vaka Moana: voyages of the ancestors
- Cook & Omai : the cult of the South Seas
- Cook & Omai : the cult of the South Seas
- ONE hundred : celebrating the Mitchell Library centenary
- Finding Antarctica
- Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage (Anchorage Museum Alaska)
- Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage (Washington State Historical Society, Seattle)
- Maps of the Pacific
State Library of New South Wales (1 June - 28 November, 1998)
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain). Applies to: ff. 27(a) ; 31
Auckland Museum
National Library of Australia (February 2001 - June 2001). Applies to: f. 26; 28
National Library of Australia (February - June 2001)
State Library of New South Wales (March 2010 - June 2010). Applies to: f.26
State Library of New South Wales (November 2011 - February 2012). Applies to: PXD 11 f,30
Anchorage Museum, Alaska (March 2015 - September 2015). Applies to: Volume 5
Washington State Historical Society (October 2015 - January 2016)
State Library of New South Wales (August 2021 - April 2022)
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXD 11
Record Identifier
nZNvyken
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nZNvyken
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Reference code
414295
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