Watercolours illustrating Captain Cook's last voyage, ca. 1773-1784 / John Webber

fonds

ca. 1773-1784

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours, Prints

455685

Digitised

46 drawings - 23 x 17 - 40 x 66 cm - watercolour
3 prints - engravings

In 1776, John Webber (1752-1793) was appointed topographical artist on the Resolution and sailed with James Cook on the third voyage, 1776-1780. Cook's first voyage sailed 1768-1771 and his second voyage from 1772-1775 -- Australian Encyclopaedia

Offered by Maggs Bros., Catalogue No. 491, Lot 127, 1927

40 drawings by J. Webber (5 signed, 2 dated), together with 6 watercolours of the first voyage, including one signed by J. Barralet, and 3 engraved portraits.

Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales

Numbers 14, 15, 43, 44, 45 & 46 correspond to engraved plates nos. 7, 16, 1, 2, 5, 6 respectively in: An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty, for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour : drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. / by John Hawkesworth.

Catalogue information based on DL PXX 2 contents list and catalogue card

'Illustrations of Cook's voyages: original drawings by Webber' -- spine title on original volume

Photocopy of relevant page and notes on Tahitian costume filed at PXX2n.
Contents list is filed with the volume and in the Mitchell Library Reading Room.
Digital order no:Album ID : 823751

Pictures titles inscribed in pencil on mount below image.

Cover of original volume housed separately.
Volume disbound in 1986 and rehoused in window mounts in 6 volumes -- DL cat. card.