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Various articles at Nootka Sound

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Date:

1780-1784

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Art

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2908393

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Captain Cook's voyages collection

Various articles at Nootka Sound
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Date(s):

1780-1784

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print / estampe : etching and engraving (proof) on wove paper
Support 41.500 x 56.000 cm
Platemark 20.500 x 27.700 cm

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See acc. no. 1991-265-123X., John Webber was the official artist for James Cook's Third Voyage (1776-1780) from the South Seas to the West Coast of North America. This image appears in the book of plates, companion to the second edition of the Journal of Captain Cook and James King, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean...three volumes (I and II by Cook, III by King), published in 1785 by William Strahan in New Street, Shoe Lane and Thomas Cadell in the Strand, London, England. Printed by H. Hughes. This image is plate number 40., Part of a slide show edited and introduced by Douglas E. Schoenherr, Research Officer, National Archives of Canada, together with the National Film Board of Canada, 1977: Captain Cook's Last Voyage 1776-1780, Portraits and Views from the Northwest Coast by John Webber., 1. A bird, made of wood; hollow, with stone in the inside, which the Natives shake when they dance. 2. A Seal's head, made of wood, worn upon their heads. 3. A bird's head, composed of wood and feathers, also worn upon their heads. 4. Another for the same purpose and ornamented with green tail (Volume II of III, xciii).
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Artist: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Engraver: Record, John active 1768-1780
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General note:

album: Volume Three

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Inscription: in the plate, u.r.: 40; l.l.: J. Webber del.; l.r.: J. Record sculp.t; b.: VARIOUS ARTICLES, at NOOTKA SOUND.
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artifact

objet façonné
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Private

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00196
1991-265 X DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
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Item no. assigned by LAC [1991-265 X] 196

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-265-196
Copyright: Expired

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