IMAGE
Holland, Nathaniel Dance (Sir), 1734-1811 :Captain James Cook, F R S. [after Nathaniel Dance Holland and John Keyse Sherwin, ca 1795]
- Date
- 1790 - 1800
- By
- Dance-Holland, Nathaniel (Sir), 1734-1811; Sherwin, John Keyse, 1751-1790
- Reference
- A-451-003
- Description
Shows Captain Cook in uniform, seated and looking to his left, and holding a chart of the Southern Hemisphere. A pirated re-engraving of J K Sherwin's engraving of the Dance portrait. Variations include Cook's hand holding the chart rolled at the foredge; he has the chart on his knee and his right arm obscures his hat's cockade; and the background is plain
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Copper engraving on paper, 257 x 193 cm, on paper backing 330 x 245 mm
Provenance: Purchase: Antipodean Books, Maps and Prints, New York, February 2012
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- 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, Portraits, Copper engraving on paper, 257 x 193 cm, on paper backing 330 x 245 mm, Orientation: Vertical image
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