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C1773
[The head of a New Zealander, with a comb in his hair, an ornament of green stone in his ear, and another of a fish’s hook round his neck.]
Artist:
Sydney Parkinson (1745 - 1771)
Rare engraving from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s first voyage. All other later copies made of this image by other publishers were unauthorised, usually smaller and inferior in quality. A portrait of Otegoowgoow or … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
[The head of a New Zealander, with a comb in his hair, an ornament of green stone in his ear, and another of a fish’s hook round his neck.]
Date:
C1773
Artist:
Sydney Parkinson (1745 - 1771)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
180mm
x 225mm
AUTHENTICITY
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Genuine antique
dated:
1773
Description:
Rare engraving from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s first voyage. All other later copies made of this image by other publishers were unauthorised, usually smaller and inferior in quality.
A portrait of Otegoowgoow or (Otegoongoon), the son of a chief from the Bay of Islands. He was wounded by a shot in the fracas with Cook and his party on 29 November 1769. Banks met the man on 3 December, noting;
‘They hung to them by strings many very different thing[s], often chissels or bodkins made of a green talk…. or the tooth of a whale cut slauntwise, so as something to resemble a tongue, and furnished with two eyes; these they wore about their necks and seemed to Value almost above everything else’. (Banks, Journal II, 17.)
Reference; Joppien 1.127A ill.p.185
From Hawkesworth, An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere,..
Artist:
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.
