Vue d’un Rocher troue de la Nouvelle Zelande. [New Zealand]

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Rare engraving from the French edition of the accounts of Cook’s first voyage, published (1774) the year after the English edition (1773).

The title in the English versions was:

[A view of a perforated rock in Tolaga Bay in New Zealand].

View of Arched Rock, Tolaga Bay, on New Zealand’s north-east coast of the North Island. Cook visited the area in 1769.

Sporing, the artist, has depicted the Endeavours’ pinnance, which was moving about the bay on the same day in the process of wooding and watering the ship. The discovery of the view was recorded ‘We saw an extraordinary natural curiosity. In pursuing a valley bounded on each side by steep hills we on a sudden saw a most noble arch or Cavern through the face of a rock leading directly to the sea, so that through it we had not only a view of the bay and hills on the other side but an opportunity of imagining a ship or any other grand object opposite it. It was certainly the most magnificent surprize. I have ever met with so much is pure nature superior to art in these cases‘ Banks, Jornal I, 419, 419, 24 October 1769.

Reference: Beddie 660, p.124, Joppien 1.113B ill. pp. 173 (English edition)

From Hawkesworth, Relation des Voyages Entrepris par ordre de Sa Majeste Britannique Actuallement Regnante:…..