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Portrait of Captain Cook on a Medal

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Date:

ca. 1784

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2907888

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Captain Cook's voyages collection

Portrait of Captain Cook on a Medal
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Date(s):

ca. 1784

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Place of printing:

London (England):

Extent:

1 print / estampe : etching and engraving (proof before title) on laid paper
Support 19.300 x 13.600 cm

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The etching is a representation of one side of a medal that was struck in 1784 by the Royal Society in honour of Captain Cook. The other side of the medal showed an allegory of Great Britain. It is this side that illustrates the title page of the second volume of the second edition of A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean., The image of Captain James Cook is found in A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, second edition/ by Captain James Cook F.R.S./ London: G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785, Volume one, frontispiece., See acc. no. 1991-265-7X.
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Artist: Whilby (?)

Engraver: Hogg, I. (J. ?)
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General note:

album: Volume One

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in the plate, l.c., in the image, around the edges of the medal: IAC. COOK OCEANI INVESTIGATOR ACERRIMVS.; l.c., below figure: REG. SOC. LOND./ SOCIO SVO; l.c., beneath image: Engraved by I. Hogg.; in pencil, recto, b.: From the drawing of a Medal by Whilby

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Portraits

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Private

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00006
1991-265 X DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access through an art archivist. No restriction on use for reproduction or publication

Item no. assigned by LAC [1991-265 X] 6

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-265-6
Copyright: Expired

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