• Title
  The death of Captain Cook / J. H. Ramberg
• Creator
  Johann Heinrich Ramberg, 1763-1840
• Call number
  DG 211
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1784. Year of exhibition at Royal Academy, London
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  845947
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - 40 x 56 1/2 in. (inside frame), 45 1/2 x 61 3/4 (frame) - oil
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  
• General note
  
  Ramberg (also spelt Rhamberg) exhibited this painting at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Summer Exhibition for 1784 as no. 45 "The death of Capt Cook": see Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, no. 16, 1784, and Julien Domercq 'A Hero's Death', Apollo, July/August 2013, p. 49
  
  The painting was reviewed, critically, in E Johnson's British Gazette and Sunday Monitor, May 16 1784.
  
  The British Museum holds a drawing of the 1784 Royal Academy exhibition venue, in which this painting can be seen at the lower right: British Museum reference no. 1904,0101.1 - https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1904-0101-1.
  
  Exhibited at Cook's Landing Place Historic Site Museum, Kurnell, 1973
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1014766
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned and untitled
• Date note
  
  Undated
• Subject
  Cook, James, 1728-1779.
  
• Topic
  explorers
  Hawaiians
  marines
  
• Place
  Kealakekua Bay (Hawaii)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE542908

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