IMAGE
Artist unknown: Vaartuigen van de Vrienden-Eilanden [1774. Copied ca 1785]
- Date
- 1774 - 1780 - 1777 - 1790
- Reference
- E-329-f-009
- Description
Copy by an unknown Dutch artist after Hodges' engraving published in Cook (1777, plate 62, fp 18) 'Boats of the Friendly Isles', from Captain James Cook's 2nd voyage to the Pacific. Shows four large and one small canoe, the larger canoes having outriggers, sails and shelters on deck. Verso shows handwritten text in Dutch.
There is some variation in the details between this and the engraved version.
Other Titles - Boats of the Friendly Islands, Tonga [translation]
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink. Also verso covered in text in Dutch describing the scene
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour and holograph in album 272 x 430 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Artist unknown :Views in the South Seas [1769-1779. Drawn 1780s?] / Artist unknown :Views in the South Seas [1769-1779. Drawn 1780s?]
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour and holograph in album 272 x 430 mm
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