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View of the Island Otaheitie, the House and Shed called Tupapow

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Date:

1771-1773

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Art

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Item ID number:

2907914

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Captain Cook's voyages collection

View of the Island Otaheitie, the House and Shed called Tupapow
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Date(s):

1771-1773

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print / estampe : etching and engraving (proof before lettering) on laid paper
Support 22.600 x 34.600 cm

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A view of the Island of Otaheite; with the house or shed called tupapow, under which the dead are deposited, and a representation of the person who performs the principal part in the funeral ceremony in his particular dress. Note that in the bread-fruit tree on the right is a man climbing., An Account of the voyages undertaken...for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere/ drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks, by John Hawkesworth/ London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773/ Volume two, between pages 234 and 235., See acc. no. 1991-265-25X.

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Engraver: Woollett, William, 1735-1785

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General note:

album: Volume One

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in pencil, recto, b.: View of the Island otahatie, the House & shed called Tupapow, with a man climbing the Bread Fruit tree/ Cooke's (sic) Voyages Vol 2 -234-
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00024
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] 24

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-265-24
Copyright: Expired

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