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Title
Arrangement structure
Item (linked) part of
Date(s)
ca. 1784
Place
London
Place of creation
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Publisher
sold by: R. Ackerman Jr. & Mr. Birdsall
Extent
Support: 13.600 x 19.300 cm (sheet)
Scope and content
The etching is a representation of one side of a medal that was struck in 1784 by the Royal Society in honour of Captain Cook. The other side of the medal showed an allegory of Great Britain. It is this side that illustrates the title page of the second volume of the second edition of A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean.
The image of Captain James Cook is found in A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, second edition/ by Captain James Cook F.R.S./ London: G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785, Volume one, frontispiece.
See acc. no. 1991-265-7X.
Conditions of access
Physical access through an art archivist
. No restriction on use for reproduction or publication
00006
1991-265 X DAP
Terms of use
Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-265-6
Copyright: Expired
Additional name(s)
Artist:
Whilby (?)
Engraver:
Hogg, I. (J. ?)
Additional information
Signatures and inscriptions
Source
Private
Other system control no.
MIKAN no.
2907888
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