Voyages - Cook

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Record Information

Title
Voyages - Cook
Reference
PPWD-19-2-003
Description
  • Series - PPWD
  • Box # - 19
  • Folder # - 2
  • Image # - 003
  • Title - Voyages - Cook
  • Description - [from the front]: "AN OFFERING BEFORE CAPTAIN COOK IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS". This old print of nearly a century-and-a-half ago shows Captain Cook and some of his officers at a ceremonial reception on Hawaii Island, near where his ships Resolution and Discovery lay in Kealakekua Bay. Having first visited the Islands in January, 1778, he was on the Big island, Hawaii, in December of that year and again early in 1779, his death occurring February 14. This print, in the Bryant Cooper collecton (Honolulu), bears these credits: "Drawn by J. Webber; the landscape engraving by Middiman; the figures by Hail.; Paradise of the Pacific. [from the back]: [unrelated information noted]
  • Negative Number - 618
  • Display Date - undated
ID
ark:70111/1Fpg
Level
Record
Parent ID
ark:70111/1DMD
Closure Type
Open
Open/Closed
true
Closure Status
Open document, open description