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Omai

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Date:

1 February, 1777

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Art

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Item ID number:

2907961

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Captain Cook's voyages collection

Omai
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Date(s):

1 February, 1777

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print / estampe : etching and engraving (proof) on laid paper
Support 62.700 x 43.700 cm
Platemark 30.400 x 25.000 cm

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The Journal of Cook's Voyages was published in 1777, in two volumes, and includes engravings done by many artists after drawings executed by Hodges on this second journey. The official first edition was published February 1, 1777 by William Strahan in New Street, Shoe Lane and Thomas Cadell in the Strand, London, England. This image appears in Volume One, facing page 169., Omai, a native of Ulietea, was taken aboard by Captain Furneaux at the island of Huaheine on September 7, 1773. He voyaged to England, met the King at Kew, and returned home two years later, again with Captain Cook in the Resolution. He was immensely popular in England, and was idealized as the noble savage., William Hodges was chosen by the British Admiralty to accompany Captain James Cook on his Second Voyage (1772-1775) as the official artist of this expedition., The original drawing is in the holdings of the National Archives of Canada.
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Artist: Hodges, William, 1744-1797

Engraver: Caldwall, James, 1739-1819
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General note:

album: Volume One

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in the plate, l.l.: Drawn from Nature by W.Hodges.; l.r.: Engraved by J.Caldwall.; b.: OMAI./ Published Feby.1st.1777, by Wm. Strahan, New Street, Shoe Lane, & Thos. Cadell, in the Strand, London.; in pencil, recto, u.r.: "LVII" (57)

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Portraits

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Private

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00046
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] 46

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-265-46
Copyright: Expired

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