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C1777
Man of New Caledonia
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Rare c.18th engraving from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s second voyage. Cook discovered the island group of New Caledonia on 4 September 1774, which he named New Caledonia. The Resolution remained in New Caledonia … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Man of New Caledonia
Date:
C1777
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
195mm
x 250mm
Paper Size:
225mm
x 185mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1777
Description:
Rare c.18th engraving from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s second voyage.
Cook discovered the island group of New Caledonia on 4 September 1774, which he named New Caledonia. The Resolution remained in New Caledonia from 5 to 13 September, 1774.
‘Some of them have a kind of Concave cylindrical stiff black caps, these seemed to be a great ornament among them, and we thought anly worn by men of note or Wariors, a large sheet of our strong paper, when ever they got one, was generally applied to this use’. Cook, Journal II, 540, 2 September 1774.
The attachment to the hat is described as ‘A becket, or a piece of cord made of cocoa-nut bark, used in throwing their lances.’ Foster II, 385, 1777.
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.
References:
Beddie, M. Bibliography of Captain James Cook, RN,FRS, Circumnavigator. Sydney 1970. 1381-39
Hill, J. The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages. San Diego 1974 358.
Joppien,R. & Smith, B. The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages; Vol. I, II & III. Melbourne 1985-1987. 2.137A, ill.p.238
Sabin, J. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time. New York. (1936) 1967. 16245.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 90039
State Library New South Wales: RECORD IDENTIFIER 74VvMokVOlGA / 74VvMoxg6JJX
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.
