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Title

A Canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the Rowers Masked.

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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 title) on laid paper
Support: 46.800 x 31.300 cm (sheet)
Platemark: 40.800 x 26.800 cm

Scope and content

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 65
See acc. nos. 1991-265-148X, 1991-265-216X

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
00147

Restrictions not set

Other accession no.

00147
1991-265 X DAP

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-265-147
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Engraver: Grignion, Charles, 1754-1804.
Artist: Webber.
Artist: John, 1751-1793.

Additional information

album: Volume Two

Signatures and inscriptions

Inscription: in the plate, in pencil, recto, u.r.: "65"

Subject heading

1. transportation.
2. transport.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON74878

MIKAN no.

2908933