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Title

A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee. 

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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) on wove paper
Support: 56.000 x 41.500 cm (sheet)
Platemark: 53.300 x 26.300 cm

Scope and content

See acc. no. 1991-265-152X.
John Webber was the official artist for Captain James Cook's Third Voyage (1776-1780) from the South Seas to the West Coast of North America. This image appears in the companion book of plates to the second edition of the Journal by Captains James Cook and James King, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean...., in three volumes [I and II by Cook, III by King], published in 1785 by William Strahan in New Street, Shoe Lane, and by Thomas Cadell in the Strand, London, England [and printed by H. Hughes]. This image is plate number 68.
A view of the harbour with a multitude of sailing vessels and canoes.

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
00213
Restrictions not set
Other accession no.
00213
1991-265 X DAP

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-265-213
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Artist: Webber, John, 1751-1793.
Engraver: Byrne, William, 1743-1805.

Additional information

Album: Volume Three

Signatures and inscriptions
Inscription: in the plate, u.r.: 68; l.l.: J.Webber del.; l.r.: W. Byrne sculp.; b.: A View of KARAKAKOOA, in OWYHEE.

Subject heading

architecture.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON74641

MIKAN no.

2908702