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C1784
View of Endeavour River, on the coast of New Holland, where Captain Cook had the Ship laid on Shore, in order to repair the Damage which she received on the Rock.
Artist:
Alex Hogg
A reduced version of this famous engraving which was the only known engraving of the Endeavour, published by Alexander Hogg. Taken from the first engraved view of the Australian east coast published in the official accounts of Cook’s first voyage … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
View of Endeavour River, on the coast of New Holland, where Captain Cook had the Ship laid on Shore, in order to repair the Damage which she received on the Rock.
Date:
C1784
Artist:
Alex Hogg
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving hand coloured
Image Size:
265mm
x 157mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1784
Description:
A reduced version of this famous engraving which was the only known engraving of the Endeavour, published by Alexander Hogg.
Taken from the first engraved view of the Australian east coast published in the official accounts of Cook’s first voyage and one of only a handful of C18th images of the Endeavour. The Endeavour a converted collier, was chosen by Cook because of it’s flat-bottomed design which allowed it to sail in shallow waters and to be beached for loading and unloading. Here it is shown careened for repairs near present day Cooktown. On Cook’s seminal chart of the east coast he gives the name, The Labyrinth, to the maze of reefs now named the Great Barrier Reef.
Cook’s own account of the Endeavour striking the reef 10 June 1770;
‘before ten, we had twenty and one twenty fathom, and this depth continuing, the gentlemen left the deck in great tranquillity, and went to bed; but a few minutes before eleven, the water fhallowed at once from twenty to feventeen fathom, and before the lead could be caft again, the fhip ftruck, and remained immoveable, except by the heaving of the furge, that beat her against the craggs of the rock upon which she lay.’. Cook Journal I, 3,545-
References Beddie 932-19, BOCC 650 EOA Pg 38-50 ill pg 47 AAOF Plate 19
From Anderson, A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World.
Biography:
Sydney Parkinson (1768-1771)
Parkinson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and from an early age his artistic abilities were noticed. He was employed by Joseph Banks in London before joining him and Daniel Solander on James Cook’s Endeavour on a circumnavigation of the globe (1768-1771) as a botanical draughtsman. During the voyage, he made at least 1,300 drawings and paintings. Parkinson was the first European to draw eucalypts. On the return voyage, he died in Batavia.
James Cook (1728–1779)
Cook was the most important navigator of the Age of Enlightenement, a period that saw the mystery of the Southland resolved, the discovery of New Zealand, Hawaii, numerous Pacific Islands and confirmation that a northwest passage did not exist.
Cook was born in Yorkshire, England, the son of a Scottish labourer and apprenticeship for three years under John Walker, a Quaker coal-shipper of Whitby. In 1755 Walker offered him a command, but instead Cook joined H.M.S. Eagle and within a month was master’s mate. After two years on the Channel service, he was promoted master of the Pembroke, and in 1758 crossed the Atlantic in her and took part in the siege of Louisburg and the survey of the St Lawrence River that led to the capture of Quebec.
Returning to England in 1762 he married Elizabeth Batts (1742-1832?) of Shadwell, whom he was to rarely see in the ensuing years at sea.
Cook then famously commanded three voyages that ended with his death on the island of Hawaii on 14 February 1779.
