John Webber Inland Atooi View Engraving

Hawaiian Islands / Atooi, Kauaʻi

1784, first edition atlas from Captain Cook's Third Voyage

Copper plate engraving by John Webber

Archival mat: 20 × 30 in. (50.8 × 76.2 cm)

Provenance: Randy Nagatani, Honolulu, HI; Lahaina Printsellers, Maui, HI

This copper plate engraving by John Webber presents an inland view at Atooi, an early European name associated with Kauaʻi, from the first edition atlas of Captain Cook's third and final voyage, published in 1784. Inland landscape views form a distinct category within Cook voyage illustration, which more typically focused on coastal approaches, harbors, and figure studies; Webber's documentation of the interior landscape of Kauaʻi reflects a broader attention to the agricultural and settlement geography of the islands, not only their shorelines and inhabitants.

The composition emphasizes the organization of land, vegetation, and settlement as observed from within the island rather than from the sea, giving the plate a different spatial character from the majority of Cook voyage Hawaiian imagery. The larger archival mat gives the engraving a generous visual presence suited to a landscape subject. The Randy Nagatani and Lahaina Printsellers provenance adds a documented local collecting history to a plate that distinguishes itself within the Cook voyage Hawaiian record.

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Three issues on this listing:

1. Typo in provenance "Randy Nagagtani" — extra "g". Should be "Randy Nagatani."

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This copper plate engraving by John Webber depicts a man of the Sandwich Islands wearing a feathered helmet, from the first edition atlas of Captain Cook's third and final voyage, published in 1784. Webber was appointed official draughtsman for the expedition in 1776 and supervised the engraving of his drawings for the Admiralty's official account; his plates of Hawaiian chiefly dress remain among the best-known early visual documents of the islands. The feathered helmet was among the most culturally significant objects in the Hawaiian chiefly wardrobe, and its appearance here reflects the expedition's systematic attention to objects of rank and ceremony.

The archival mat presents the plate at a formal scale consistent with other Cook voyage engravings. Webber's line work records the helmet, cloak, and figure with the documentary clarity that distinguishes the official voyage publication from later popular editions. The Randy Nagatani and Lahaina Printsellers provenance adds a chain of Hawaiian collecting history to a print at the center of early Hawaiian visual documentation.

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