Description: Has a rip as shown in picture both have some foxing and the man needs restoration has mold saman please see photos for condition thanks Artist: John Keyse Sherwin (1751-1790) after John Webber (1751-1793) Title: A Young Woman of the Sandwich Islands Date: 1784 School: British, XVIIIth-century Medium: engraving Dimensions: 290 x 230mm (plate), 547 x 390mm (sheet) Watermark: countermark of Dovecote/Colombier, French 18th-century, Heawood 1237 (see image below) Description: Portrait of an unidentified Hawaiian young woman with feather lei around her neck and in her hair. Cook visited Hawaii from January to March 1779. Published as plate 63 in the Atlas volume of James Cook & James King, Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke and Gore, in His Majesty’s ships the Resolution and Discovery , in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780, In three volumes. and a fourth folio volume with engravings, known as “Atlas”, London, W. and A. Strahan for G Nicol … and T. Cadell, 1784. Reference: on the publication of the plates see Rüdiger Joppien “Publication of the Voyage”, in Rüdiger Joppien and Bernard Smith, The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages, Volume Three Text The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery 1776-1780, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988, pp. 161-169. For an explanation of the events depicted see Rüdiger Joppien and Bernard Smith, The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages, Volume Three Catalogue The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery 1776-1780, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988, 3.316-3.317A. Provenance: Peter Wedde Antiques, Wellington, 1998
Price: 100 USD
Location: Newbury Park, California
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Type: Print
Year of Production: 1784
Country/Region of Manufacture: Cook Islands
Subject: Women
