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A Woman of Van Dieman's Land

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Date:

1780-1784

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2908198

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Captain Cook's voyages collection

A Woman of Van Dieman's Land
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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 paper
Support 56.000 x 41.500 cm
Platemark 28.500 x 22.400 cm

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See acc. no. 1991-265-96X., 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 7., These females wore a kangooroo (sic) skin (in the same shape as it came from the animal) tied over the shoulders, and round the waist. But its only use seemed to be, to support their children when carried on their backs; ...and their bodies marked with scars in the smae manner (as the men)...some of them had their heads completely shorn or shaven...while the rest of them had all the upper part of the head shorn close, leaving a circle of hair all round, somewhat like the tonsure of the Romish (sic) Ecclesiastics (Volume I of III, p.101-102).
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Artist: Webber, John, 1751-1793

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

album: Volume Three

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in the plate, u.r.: 7; l.l.: J.Webber del.; l.l.: J.Caldwall sc.; b.: A WOMAN OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.

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Portraits

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Private

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00169
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] 169

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-265-169
Copyright: Expired

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