IMAGE
Holland, Nathaniel Dance (Sir), 1734-1811 :Captain James Cook. N Dance / J Horsburgh. Published by Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh. [1836]
- Date
- 1836
- By
- Dance-Holland, Nathaniel (Sir), 1734-1811; Horsburgh, John, (1791-1869); Oliver & Boyd Ltd
- Reference
- A-451-009
- Description
Three-quarter seated portrait of Cook, similar to John Sherwin's engraving of the Dance painting. Cook looks off to his left as he holds a chart, pointing to a detail on it with his right hand. His tricorne sits on a book beside him, with the sea beyond
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. 3323
Extended Title - From: An historical account of the circumnavigation of the globe and of the progress of discovery in the Pacific Ocean (Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd, 1836). Frontispiece
Inscriptions: Verso - centre - The Urwick Library / Thomas Greenwood [library stamp]
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Copper engraving, 83 x 65 mm on sheet 130 x 83 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, 83 x 65 mm on sheet 130 x 83 mm, Orientation: Vertical image
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