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Afia-Too-Ca, A Burying Place in the Isle of Amsterdam

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Date:

1776-1777

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2907981

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Captain Cook's voyages collection

Afia-Too-Ca, A Burying Place in the Isle of Amsterdam
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Date(s):

1776-1777

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print / estampe : etching and engraving (proof) on laid paper
Support 44.800 x 61.800 cm
Platemark 26.200 x 41.000 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 200., 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.
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Artist: Hodges, William, 1744-1797

Engraver: Byrne, William, 1743-1805
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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.: Engrav'd by W.Byrne.; b.: AFIA-TOO-CA, A BURYING PLACE IN THE ISLE OF AMSTERDAM./ London, Publish'd as the Act directs July 16.1776.; u.r.: "XXVIII" (28)

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Architecture

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Private

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00053
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] 53

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-265-53
Copyright: Expired

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