C1773

[Tools etc from the South Sea Isles]

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Rare c.18th engraving from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s first voyage of implements of the Society Islands. Shown are an adze and tattooing tools. ‘The Figure, reckoning from the left hand, is an adze … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

[Tools etc from the South Sea Isles]

Date:

C1773

Artist:

John Frederick Miller (1759 - 1796)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Copper engraving.

Image Size:

180mm

x 210mm

Paper Size:

238mm

x 301mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1773

Description:

Rare c.18th engraving from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s first voyage of implements of the Society Islands.

Shown are an adze and tattooing tools.

‘The Figure, reckoning from the left hand, is an adze of the larger size, the second and third are different representations of the upper part of it…the third are different representations of the upper part of it…the smaller figures are tattowing instruments…the last is the instrument with they struck,’ Hawkesworth II,p.191

From: Hawkesworth, An Account of the Voyages Undertaken By the Order of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere.

References:
Joppien, Art of Cooks Voyages: 1.98A ill.p.160
Hakluyt Society, The Charts and Coastal Views of Captain Cook’s Voyages. Volume 1. The Voyages of the Endeavour 1768- 1771. No. 42. London 1988 : 1.118A ll. p.112.
Hill, J. The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages. San Diego 1974 : 782.
Beddie, M. Bibliography of Captain James Cook, RN,FRS, Circumnavigator. Sydney 1970: 648.

Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 861232
State Library Victoria: RARELTF 910.41 H31V
State Library New South Wales: CALL N

John Frederick Miller (1759 - 1796)

Miller was the son of Johann Muller, an engraver from Nuremberg, who settled in England in 1744. Of his twenty-seven children, two sons followed in their father's career. It was probably through Banks acquaintance with his father that John Frederick came into Banks employment. He was given the task of making drawings of artefacts collected by Banks and others on the Endeavour's voyage, and was to have accompanied Banks as a natural history draughtsman on Cook's second voyage to the Pacific, on the Resolution, together with his brother James.

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