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A view of the habitations in Nootka Sound

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Date:

1782

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Art

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2908437

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Captain Cook's voyages collection

A view of the habitations in Nootka Sound
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Date(s):

1782

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 25.500 x 39.400 cm

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See acc. no. 1991-265-124X., 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 41.
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Artist: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Engraver: Smith, Samuel ca. 1745-?
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General note:

album: Volume Three

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in the plate, u.r.: 41; l.l.: J. Webber del.; l.r.: S. Smith sculp; b.: A VIEW of the HABITATIONS in NOOTKA SOUND.
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Indian

Architecture
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Private

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00197
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] 197

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-265-197
Copyright: Expired

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