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Title

Cook's Men Shooting Walrus / l'équipage de Cook chassant le morse.

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Item (linked) part of

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

Date(s)

August 19, 1778

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 watercolour / aquarelle : black chalk and grey wash / craie noire et lavis gris on laid paper
Support: 25.900 x 13.500 cm

Scope and content

Rough sketch for Plate 52 of A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean..., London, 1784
Acc. no. 1991-265-236X is a more finished version of this sketch. See also acc. nos. 1991-265-228X, 1991-265-135X (prints)

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)
Copy negative c-002620

90: Open

Graphic (art)

99: Closed pending processing

Box
A201-01/X3 Item no. assigned by LAC 235

90: Open

Other accession no.

00235
1991-265 X DAP

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-265-235
Copyright: Expired / Expiré

Additional name(s)

Artist: Webber, John, 1751-1793.

Additional information

Removed from: Album: Formerly mounted on folios 2-8 of Volume III

Availability of other formats note

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions

Inscribed. Signed. Dated.
Inscription: in pen, verso: random pen jottings, sketch for Plate 52

Varying form of title

Cook's Men Shooting Walrus, August 19 1778.

Subject heading

1. hunting.
2. chasse.
3. SUBJ - DISCOVERY & EXPLORATIONS - 1776-1780 - COOK.
4. SUBJ - HUNTING, WALRUS.
5. SUBJ - SUBJ - ANIMALS, WALRUS.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON75339

MIKAN no.

2909378