Hawaiian Islands / Owhyhee
1789
Uncolored copper plate engraving
Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm); image: 5½ × 7½ in. (14 × 19.1 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Stockholm
This uncolored copper plate engraving shows a view in Owhyhee, an early European spelling for Hawai‘i, with one of the priest’s houses set within a coastal landscape. It was published in A New Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, printed for C. Cooke at Pater-Noster Row in London. The image reflects the late eighteenth-century European appetite for geographic and travel publications describing the Pacific world.
The absence of hand coloring gives this example a more direct printed character, emphasizing the engraved line, architecture, and landscape detail. The scene records Hawaiian thatched structures and settlement patterns as interpreted for an English readership shortly after the voyages of Captain Cook. Its Private collection, Stockholm provenance adds a European collecting history to an early published Hawaiian subject.
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Hawaiian Islands / Owhyhee
1789
Uncolored copper plate engraving
Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm); image: 5½ × 7½ in. (14 × 19.1 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Stockholm
This uncolored copper plate engraving shows a view in Owhyhee, an early European spelling for Hawai‘i, with one of the priest’s houses set within a coastal landscape. It was published in A New Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, printed for C. Cooke at Pater-Noster Row in London. The image reflects the late eighteenth-century European appetite for geographic and travel publications describing the Pacific world.
The absence of hand coloring gives this example a more direct printed character, emphasizing the engraved line, architecture, and landscape detail. The scene records Hawaiian thatched structures and settlement patterns as interpreted for an English readership shortly after the voyages of Captain Cook. Its Private collection, Stockholm provenance adds a European collecting history to an early published Hawaiian subject.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
