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A Woman of Kamtschatka

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Date:

1780-1784

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Box number: A201-01/X2

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2909156

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Captain Cook's voyages collection

A Woman of Kamtschatka
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Date(s):

1780-1784

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print / estampe : etching (proof) on wove paper
Support 56.000 x 41.500 cm
Platemark 30.200 x 24.000 cm

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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 76, See acc. no. 1991-265-160X
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Artist: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Engraver: Sharp, William 1749-1824
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General note:

album: Volume Three

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in the plate, l.l.: J. Webber del.; l.r.: W. Sharp sc.; b.: A WOMAN of KAMTSCHATKA.; u.r.: 76

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Portraits

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Private

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00225
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

Box [1991-265]

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A201-01/X2 Item no. assigned by LAC 225

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-265-225
Copyright: Expired

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