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Title

A boxing match, in Hapaee.

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Item (linked) part of

Captain Cook's voyages collection [graphic material] (R5782-0-4-E)

Date(s)

1780-1784

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 print / estampe : etching and engraving (proof before lettering) on laid paper
Support: 27.100 x 39.300 cm (sheet)
Platemark: 22.600 x 30.100 cm

Scope and content

See acc. no. 1991-265-175X.
John Webber was the official artist for James Cook's Third Voyage (1776-1780) from the South Seas to the West Coast of North America. This image appears in the book of plates, companion to the second edition of the Journal of Captain Cook and James King, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean...three volumes (I and II by Cook, III by King), published in 1785 by William Strahan in New Street, Shoe Lane and Thomas Cadell in the Strand, London, England. Printed by H. Hughes. This image is plate number 15.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)

99: Closed pending processing
Physical access through an art archivist
. No restriction on use for reproduction or publication

Graphic (art)

99: Closed pending processing

Item no. assigned by LAC
00102

Restrictions not set

Other accession no.

00102
1991-265 X DAP

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-265-102
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Artist: Webber, John, 1751-1793.
Engraver: Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807.

Additional information

album: Volume Two

Signatures and inscriptions

Inscription: in pencil, recto, u.r.: "15"

Subject heading

1. sport.
2. amusements.
3. divertissement.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON74181

MIKAN no.

2908252