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Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking Kava

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Date:

1780-1784

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Art

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Item ID number:

2908262

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Captain Cook's voyages collection

Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking Kava
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Date(s):

1780-1784

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print / estampe : etching and engraving (proof before title) on laid paper
Support 39.000 x 52.800 cm
Platemark 27.800 x 27.700 cm

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See acc. no. 1991-265-179X., 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 20., In the public house,or malee, the king took his seat at one end of the house, and the people, who came to visit him, sat down, as they arrived, in a semicircle at the other end (Volume I of III, p.312)., Poulaho is seen sitting in the foreground his back almost wholly turned to the spectator. He faces a man in front of him who has fallen prostate to kiss his feet. A kind of matted fence has been placed behind Poulaho's back, illustrating, as observed in the journals, that nobody was allowed to sit behind him.
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Artist: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Engraver: Sharp, William 1749-1824
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General note:

album: Volume Two

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in the plate, l.l.: Drawn from Nature by Iohn (sic) Webber.; l.r.: Engrav'd by Wm. Sharp; in pencil, recto, u.r.: "20"
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00106
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] 106

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-265-106
Copyright: Expired

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