• Title
  Indians as described in Capt. Cooke's [sic] last Voyage
• Call number
  V/32
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1790, [London] No. 16 Aldgate high Street : Sold by R. Carpenter
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  52272
• Physical Description
  Prints - 47 x 38 cm - broadside writing sheet surrounded by eight vignette engravings, each within a decorative border and titled beneath image - 1 engraving with manuscript
  
• Scope and Content
  Some vignettes are after engravings in late-18th century publications based the official accounts of Cook's three voyages around the world
  1. Shooting of Sea Horses
  2. At New Holland
  3. At Sandwich Islands
  4. A Canoe at ye Friendly Islands
  5. A Man of Kamtschatka travelling in Winter
  6. Killing of Penguins
  7. A Priest & others at Ulietea
  8. Capt. Cooke kill'ed at O-we-hee
• General note
  
  Not listed in Bibliography of Captain James Cook ... 2d edn / Edited by M.K. Beddie. Sydney, 1970
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Inscribed in contemporary late-18th century hand with manuscript poem (not related to the images after Cook's voyages)
• Subject
  Cook, James, 1728-1779.
  
• Topic
  broadsheets
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20835128

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