Description
Rare c.18th engraving of a female Maori, from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s second voyage. This is the first and most superior issue of Cook’s engravings.
Hodges made the portrait for this engraving at Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand, on Cook’s first visit to the Sound, during the second voyage 12 May to 6 June 1773.
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.
