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Seahorses

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Date:

1780-1784

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2908568

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Captain Cook's voyages collection

Seahorses
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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 27.000 x 41.100 cm

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See acc. no. 1991-265-135X., In volume three, folio 40. This item has been given the accession number 1991-265-228 because it was not accounted for in the original numbering of the collection., John Webber was the official artist for Captain James Cook's Third Voyage (1776-1780) from the South Seas to the West Coast of North America. This image appears in the companion book of plates to the second edition of the Journal by Captains James Cook and James King, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean...., in three volumes [I and II by Cook, III by King], published in 1785 by William Strahan in New Street, Shoe Lane, and by Thomas Cadell in the Strand, London, England [and printed by H. Hughes]. This image is plate number 52., Depicts English sailors, standing in a rowboat and all aiming muskets at giant walruses., This image is 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.
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Artist: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Engraver: Scott, Edmund, 1746-1810

Engraver: Heath, James 1757-1834
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General note:

Album: Volume Three

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in the plate, u.r.: 52; l.l.: Drawn by J.Webber; l.c.: Engraved by E.Scott; l.r.: The Figures by J.Heath.; b.: SEAHORSES.
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Hunting

Chasse
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Private

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00228
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] 228

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1991-265 X] C-001365

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-265-228
Copyright: Expired

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