C1784

Views on the Coast of Kamtschatka.

Artist:

William Bligh (1754 - 1817)

$A 55

Rare engraving from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s third and final voyage. All other copies made of this image by other publishers were unauthorised, usually smaller and inferior in quality. Coastal profiles of Avacha … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Views on the Coast of Kamtschatka.

Date:

C1784

Artist:

William Bligh (1754 - 1817)

Condition:

In good condition, with folds as issued.

Technique:

Copper engraving.

Image Size:

400mm

x 230mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1784

Description:

Coastal profiles of Avacha Bay, Kamchatka, made on the ships visit during October, 1779.

Titles: Entrance of Awatska, Entrance of Awatska Bay, View in the entrance of Awatska Bay when the light-house on North Head bore S.E. b S. distant 2 miles. J.W. delt. “85.”

From Cook & King, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere….

Artist:

William Bligh (1754-1817)

Bligh was a naval officer and governor. He was descended from a family settled in St Tudy, Cornwall, since 1680, whose members had been mayors of Bodmin in the sixteenth century. William was entered in HMS Monmouth on July 1762, was paid off the following February, and joined the navy 27 July 1770. Since there was no vacancy for midshipmen, he was rated ‘able-seaman’, but he messed with the former and officially became one in February 1771. On 17 March 1776 he was appointed master of the Resolution, on James Cook’s third voyage. On the voyage made a number of the charts.