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C1777
A View in the Island of Rotterdam.
Artist:
Rare engraving from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s second voyage. All other later copies made of this image by other publishers were unauthorised, usually smaller and inferior in quality. Although this image is titled … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
A View in the Island of Rotterdam.
Date:
C1777
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition, with folds as issued.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
390mm
x 235mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1777
Description:
Rare engraving from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s second voyage. All other later copies made of this image by other publishers were unauthorised, usually
smaller and inferior in quality.
Although this image is titled ‘The Island of Roterdam’ (Nomuka Island), it is in fact a view of Tongatapu. The possible reason for this error may have been the liberty taken by the publishers requiring a view of the island. Hodges had not made an image as he had exhausted his supplies of colour pigments by the time the Resolution arrived at Nomuka in June 1774.
As Cook stated in his Journal; ‘The Inhabitants, Productions &ca of Rotterdam or Annamocka and the Neighbouring isles are much the Same as at Amsterdam.’ (Journals II, 449.)
Reference; Beddie 1381-43, p.268, Joppien p.86, pl.76
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.
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.
