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C1777
Boats of the Friendly Isles.
Artist:
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. Following the Resolution‘s visit to Tonga … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Boats of the Friendly Isles.
Date:
C1777
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition, with centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
400mm
x 250mm
AUTHENTICITY
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.
Following the Resolution‘s visit to Tonga group, 26 to 29 June 1774, William Hodges made a number of drawings of their canoes.
‘No canoes that we have seen in these seas can bear the least Comparison with these in point of neatness and workmanship’. Cook Journals II, 848.
References; Beddie 1381-42, p.268, Joppien 1.74 ill.p.274
From, Cook, 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.
