Description
Rare c.18th engraving of a Maori family at Dusky Bay, from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s second voyage and the first and most superior issue of this engraving.
Cook arrived at Dusky Bay on 26 March 1773, where he rested his men and feasted on abundant fish after three months of intense cold in Antarctic waters. William Hodges produced some of his finest works of the voyage here.
From Cook’s, A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World, performed in His Majesty’s Ships the ‘Resolution’ and ‘Adventure’, In the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. London 1777
