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Artist unknown :Captain James Cook, F.R.S. S. Hill sc[ulpt]. Boston. [1797]
- Date
- 1797
- By
- Hill, Samuel, 1766?-1804
- Reference
- A-451-012
- Description
Full standing portrait of Cook, posing in front of a tropical background and holding a musket, and with a sword, attached to a strap across his body, hanging at his side
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. 3606
Extended Title - From: Cook, J. Collected voyages - printed accounts [1797]. Captain Cook's three voyages (Boston: Thomas & Andrews and D. West. 1797). Vol.1, frontispiece
Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Mathew Prurin[?] [in faded ink]
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Copper engraving, 147 x 82 mm, tipped onto 2 strips of laid paper to measure 98 mm across
- 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, 147 x 82 mm, tipped onto 2 strips of laid paper to measure 98 mm across, Orientation: Vertical image
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Hill, Samuel, 1766?-1804. Artist unknown :Captain James Cook, F.R.S. S. Hill sc[ulpt]. Boston. [1797]. 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]. Ref: A-451-012. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/30661899More information can be found in our terms of use.