Webber, John, 1751-1793

Date: 1970 - 1780 - 1975

From: [Various artists] :[Postcards depicting works of art]. National Art Gallery. Wellington, N.Z. [1970s]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: E-278-q-031

Description: Postcard depicting Webber's oil painting of Captain James Cook shown standing with a telescope in his left hand. Gifted to the New Zealand Government in 1960 Cook posed for this portrait shortly before leaving on his 3rd voyage. It was completed in 1780. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photo-lithograph, 150 x 105 mm

Date: 1777 - 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Sharp, William, 1749-1824

Reference: C-131-017-c

Description: A scene in Lifuka, Tonga, in 1777, with James Cook and another sailor amongst a circle of Tongan men, watching a large group of women performing a dance, lit by tapers held by the watchers. There are instrumentalists in the centre of the dancers, beating sticks on the ground. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 17 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 268 x 406 mm

Date: 1788

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: A-111-135

Description: At head of plate: Engraved for Bankes's New system of geography ... [i.e. Bankes, T A new, royal, authentic and complete system... Pl. 48] Same as A-111-135-a Extended Title - Derived from engraving after Webber on Cook's 3rd voyage in: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London , 1784. Pl. 33 & 34 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, 335 x 217 mm

Date: 1800 - 1777

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Warren, Alfred William, active 1800s

Reference: A-111-116

Description: A head and shoulders frontal portrait of a man named by Cook as Mourua, of Mangaia, Cook Islands, visited by Cook in March 1777. Other Titles - A man of Mangaia, an island in the South Pacific Ocean. Derived from engraving after Webber on Cook's 3rd voyage in: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London, 1784. Pl. 11. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w 216 x 163 mm, on sheet 265 x 217 mm

Date: 1779 - 1831

By: Batty, Robert, -1848; Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: B-097-002

Description: Tahitian houses with coconut and banana palms, hills in the background Proof before letterpress for illustration in Barrow, John. The eventful history of the mutiny and piractical seizure of H. M. S. Bounty. opp. p. 29. After an engraving by John Webber on James Cook's third voyage. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 69 x 105 mm (image) on sheet 300 x 433 mm

Date: 1785 - 1779

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: A-111-014

Description: Shows Captain Cook being killed by Hawaiians in 1779. Other Titles - Death of Cook [translation] Extended Title - Derived from an engraving by W Byrne with figures engraved by F. Bartolozzi (by James Webber) 1785. See [Plates to Cook's Voyages] p 38. Published in: Troisieme voyage de Cook... v. 1 Paris: Hotel de Thou, 1785. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 8.8 x 13.7 inches (trimmed)

Date: 1777 - 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Heath, James, 1757-1834

Reference: C-131-014-a

Description: A scene in Lifuka, Tonga, in 1777, with James Cook amongst a circle of Tongan men, watching two groups of men boxing, one pair with staves, one pair bare-fisted. Three thatched roof houses are in the background. Other Titles - Ha-apai, Tonga Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 14 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 269 x 408 mm

Date: 1784

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811

Reference: A-111-030

Description: Tonga women dancing Derived from engraving by Sharp after Webber on Cook's 3rd voyage in Cook J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London, 1784. Pl. 16. Extended Title - Published in Anderson, G W A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages. Pl. 90. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w ; 219 x 344 mm

Date: 1778 - 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Grignion, Charles, 1754-1804

Reference: C-131-062-a

Description: A scene in Hawaii in 1778. A man with tattooed legs and arms is holding a circular feather-edged shield in his right hand. Around his neck is seaweed and he has dog's teeth leggings attached below his knees. He is dancing. In the background is part of a house, with a low stone wall and a banana palm. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate62 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 296 x 208 mm

Date: 1790 - 1810

Reference: B-054-010

Description: Portrait of a Tongan chief Original drawing made on Cook's 3rd voyage At head of plate: pl lxxxiv Extended Title - Derived from an engraving 'Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava, by Webber in A voyage.... [by Cook and King]... London: 1784, v. 1. pl. xx. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 229 x 364 mm

Date: 1784 - 1777

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Ellis, William Wade, 1751-1785

Reference: C-131-021-c

Description: The fiatooka (fiatoka) are the houses in the background, which are tombs, the morai (marae) the open space in front of them. One the lefthand side are a group of figures. In the central foreground is a man carrying bunches of banana strung from a pole on his shoulder. From a watercolour drawing by John Webber, 1778. See Murray-Oliver, A: Captain Cook's artists in the Pacific, pl 108 for variant Webber watercolour. Extended Title - From: Cook, J and King, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Nicholl and Cadell, 1784). Atlas. Plate 21 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 256 x 403 mm

Date: 1800 - 1776 - 1850 - 1779

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Page, active 1812

Reference: A-111-114

Description: Same as A-111-114-a Other Titles - Hawaii Extended Title - Derived from engraving by Webber on Cook's 3rd voyage in: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London, 1784. Pl. 60. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 165 x 213 mm on sheet 209 x 261. 1 mm on sheet 209 x 261 mm

Date: 1790 - 1800

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: A-111-053

Description: View in Tonga from Cook's 3rd voyage Trimmed inside upper plate mark. Published in: Anderson, G.W. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages round the world. [Anr. ed.]. Pl. 86. Derived from an engraving by Byrne after painting by Webber on Cook's 3rd voyage in: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London, 1784. Vol. 1, p 13. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w 228 x 363 mm, on sheet 234 x 382 mm

Date: 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Caldwall, James, 1739-1789

Reference: C-131-007-c

Description: Portrait of the head and upper body an aborigine woman from Tasmania. She is carrying a sleeping child on her back. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 7 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 282 x 220 mm

Date: 1790 - 1777 - 1793

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Bett, Francis Arnot Blackader, 1873-1957; Lyndham, H Saxe, active 1939

Reference: B-091-004

Description: Shows the Vaitepiha River on the Taiarapu Peninsula, Tahiti, 1777. A Tahitian man and woman stand on flat land to the left, a river in the centre. On the river is a canoe and across the river is a village. Tall hills in the background. Acquired with B-091-005 and 006. These drawings, squared up for reproduction, ar considered by Dr R. Joppien to be Webber's preliminary drawings for pl. 5, 6, and 7 in his Views of the South Seas (London, 1808 [i.e. 1809]). The watermark in B-091-006 was in use in the early 1790s (see TL 3/1/1, 13/3/85). Dr J.C. Beaglehole believed them to be copies. Other Titles - Vaitepiha Title and ascription from pencil inscription on verso, which continues: "Sent to Dr Bett of Nelson by H. Saxe Lyndham, London, at the end of 1939 and presented by Dr Bett to the Turnbull Library, 1944". Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing on laid paper; pencil 284 x 416 mm, on sheet 318 x 446 mm Provenance: Inscription on verso: " Sent to Dr Bett of Nelson by H. Saxe Lyndham, London, at the end of 1939 and presented by Dr Bett to the Turnbull Library in 1944".

Date: 1777 - 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Sherwin, John Keyse, 1751-1790

Reference: C-131-028-b

Description: A scene in Tahiti, in 1777, with two men and two women dancing before a hut, spectators on either side. Three drummers are in the background under the shelter of the hut, with a fourth person clapping the rhythm. The dancers appear to be standing on a large woven mat. Banana palms, breadfruit trees and coconut palms can be seen in the background. Other Titles - Tahiti Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 28 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 227 x 379 mm (image), 263 x 405 mm (plate mark)

Date: 1784 - 1779 - 1794

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; A Suntach (Firm); Pedro, Francesco del, 1749-1806

Reference: C-036-017

Description: Cook and his crew surrounded by fighting Hawaiians, with one man about to stab Cook. Several sailors shooting into the crowd from a pinnace to the left Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 252 x 380 mm within plate marks 304 x 410 mm Provenance: Purchased: Berkelouw, Sydney 2.12.71

Date: 1778 - 1790 - 1798

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Wooding, J G, active 1790s?

Reference: A-111-042

Description: A view made during Cook's visit to the village of waimea shows the houses of the village around a central flat area where the men of the village are engaged in various daily activities. In the centre, two men carry an animal, possibly a pig, tied by its feet to a pole. Derived from engraving by Lerpiniere after Webber in: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London, 1784. Pl. 35 Extended Title - Published in: Anderson, G. W. A new authentic and complete collection of voyages. [Anr. ed.] Pl. 143 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, black & white 234 x 374 mm, on sheet: 239 x 382 mm; trimmed inside upper and left plate marks

Date: 1800

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: B-054-015

Description: At head of plate: Pl. ci Derived from engraving 'A View of the habitations in Nootka Sound', after J. Webber, in: A voyage... [by Cook and King] ... London: 1784, v. 2 pl Original drawing made on Cook's 3rd voyage. Other Titles - View of the habitations in Nootka Sound [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w 228 x 368 mm

Date: 1784 - 1777

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Ellis, William Wade, 1751-1785

Reference: C-131-021-a

Description: The fiatooka (fiatoka) are the houses in the background, which are tombs, the morai (marae) the open space in front of them. One the lefthand side are a group of figures. In the central foreground is a man carrying bunches of banana strung from a pole on his shoulder. From a watercolour drawing by John Webber, 1778. See Murray-Oliver, A: Captain Cook's artists in the Pacific, pl 108 for variant Webber watercolour. Extended Title - From: Cook, J and King, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Nicholl and Cadell, 1784). Atlas. Plate 21 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 256 x 403 mm