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Rare engraving of Cook at Tanna between 6 – 20 August 1774, with a party going inland to the island on 10 August. ‘This day Mr. Wales, and two of three of the officers, advanced a little, for the first … Read Full Description
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Rare engraving of Cook at Tanna between 6 – 20 August 1774, with a party going inland to the island on 10 August.
‘This day Mr. Wales, and two of three of the officers, advanced a little, for the first time, into the island. They met with a small straggling village, the inhabitants of which treated them with great civility’. Cooks Journal II, p.60-61.
References; Beddie 1381-29, p.267. Joppien 2.132A, ill.p.232
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.
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National Library Australia: Bib ID 2879753
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.
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