IMAGE
Dodd, D P, fl 1785 :The death of Captain Cook. Dodd del; Birrell sculp. Published July 20, 1785 by I Fielding, Pater Noster Row. 1785
- Date
- 1785
- By
- Dodd, D P, active 1784-1785; Birrell, O, active 1786-1800
- Reference
- A-451-007
- Description
Shows a scene in which Captain Cook has already been killed, and is being dragged away from the water's edge by two Hawaiian men, in a face-down position. He appears to be dressed entirely in white. A number of Hawaiians seem to be fighting over the dagger with which he has been stabbed. Cook's men, on board a rowboat just offshore, are helping others who have fled the scene into the boat
Referred to in: M K Beddie (ed) 'Bibliography of Captain James Cook R.N., F.R.S., circumnavigator' (Sydney: Library of New South Wales, 1970; 2nd ed), no. 2586
Birrell's engraving is a copy of Dodd's drawing, first engaved by Thomas Cook and published in 1784, entitled 'The death of Captain James Cook, F.R.S. at Owhyhee in DMCCLXXIX' / drawn by D.P. Dodd & others who where [sic] on the spot; engraved by T. Cook
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Copper engraving, 104 x 175 mm, including margins, on cropped page of laid paper
Provenance: Purchase: Antipodean Books, Maps and Prints, New York, February 2012
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Various artists :[Profile, half- and full-portraits of Captain James Cook, including one of him as a young man, as well as a number of depictions of his death at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. 1759-1880, 1925]
- Format
- 1 b&w art print(s), Works of art, Engravings, Conjectural works, Copper engraving, 104 x 175 mm, including margins, on cropped page of laid paper, Orientation: Horizontal image
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