C1777

A Toupapow with a corpse on it attended by the chief mourner in his habit of ceremony.

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Rare engraving from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s second voyage. All other later copies made of this image by other publishers were unauthorised, usually smaller and inferior in quality. View of a burial site … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

A Toupapow with a corpse on it attended by the chief mourner in his habit of ceremony.

Date:

C1777

Artist:

William Hodges (1744 - 1797)

Condition:

In good condition with folds as issued.

Technique:

Copper engraving.

Image Size:

380mm

x 216mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1777

Description:

Rare engraving from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s second voyage. All other later
copies made of this image by other publishers were unauthorised, usually smaller and inferior in quality.

View of a burial site at Matavai Bay, Tahiti made during Cook’s visit to the island between 26 to 31 August 1773.

Reference; Beddie 1381-44, p.268, Joppien 2.52A, ill.p.167

From Cook’s, A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World, performed in His Majesty’s Ships the ‘Resolution’ and ‘Adventure’, In the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775.

William Hodges (1744 - 1797)

William Hodges was born in London, the only son of Ann and Charles Hodges, a blacksmith of St. James's Market London. They encouraged their son's talent for drawing and placed him in William Shipley's drawing school at Castle Court in the Strand. Joining Richard Wilson as an apprentice in 1758, he was required to assist his master 'in dead colouring and the forwarding of pictures'. A short period of study under Wilson and Cipriani at the Duke of Richmond's Gallery developed his style for classical composition. He was appointed artist on the Resolution and left Plymouth on 13 July 1772 and returned on 29 July 1775.

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