London
1784
Engraving
Image 7 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches (19.7 x 42.5 cm), frame 17 3/4 x 26 inches (45.1 x 66 cm)
Provenance: Randy Nagatani, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi; Lahaina Printsellers, Maui, Hawaiʻi, with certificate on the reverse
The plate carries six coastal profiles arranged one above another, each a long low strip of shoreline drawn as it appeared from the deck at a stated bearing and distance. The upper register places two views side by side, the left showing a low broken coast running back to a range of peaks and the right a single mountain mass rising through cloud, and the registers below carry further profiles of headlands, cliffs, and offshore rocks. Each view is lettered beneath with the island and the position from which it was taken, and the sheet is headed SANDWICH ISLANDS in small capitals at the top.
Coastal profiles of this kind were made by the ship's officers as navigational records, drawn so that a later vessel could recognize a landfall from the same bearing. The plate was engraved for the official account of James Cook's third voyage, published in London in 1784 by Strahan and Cadell, the expedition on which the Hawaiian Islands were first charted by Europeans and on which Cook was killed at Kealakekua Bay in February 1779. The frame is curly koa.
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London
1784
Engraving
Image 7 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches (19.7 x 42.5 cm), frame 17 3/4 x 26 inches (45.1 x 66 cm)
Provenance: Randy Nagatani, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi; Lahaina Printsellers, Maui, Hawaiʻi, with certificate on the reverse
The plate carries six coastal profiles arranged one above another, each a long low strip of shoreline drawn as it appeared from the deck at a stated bearing and distance. The upper register places two views side by side, the left showing a low broken coast running back to a range of peaks and the right a single mountain mass rising through cloud, and the registers below carry further profiles of headlands, cliffs, and offshore rocks. Each view is lettered beneath with the island and the position from which it was taken, and the sheet is headed SANDWICH ISLANDS in small capitals at the top.
Coastal profiles of this kind were made by the ship's officers as navigational records, drawn so that a later vessel could recognize a landfall from the same bearing. The plate was engraved for the official account of James Cook's third voyage, published in London in 1784 by Strahan and Cadell, the expedition on which the Hawaiian Islands were first charted by Europeans and on which Cook was killed at Kealakekua Bay in February 1779. The frame is curly koa.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
