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No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Size: Frame 35 x 44 cm, print image 18 x 22.5 cm Condition: Print in very good condition, mount new and good used frame This print is a first edition issue from the account of Captain Cook's Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, published in 1784. This was Cook's third voyage, starting in 1776, and the one in which he met his death in 1779. John Webber was the artist who accompanied Cook and his crew, and his drawings were subsequently engraved for the publication. Webber, only 27 years old at the time, went on to become a well known painter and fellow of the Royal Academy, but today is known mainly for his association with Cook and especially his painting of Cook's death and its many engraved versions. One principal purpose of Cook's voyage was to find the elusive North-West passage, which Cook failed to do, but this is why he found himself in 1778 in Prince William Sound, one of the first explorers to visit it. It fact it was only named Prince William Sound in that year. Webber's drawings were the first to bring to Westerners' eyes the feature of the people of that area. This print was engraved by James Basire, a very famous engraver of the period who had worked for Hogarth among others. The hand colour is later - the print was originally published without colour. The paper is laid paper of the period, and we are happy to guarantee that it is a first edition print. There are other issues of this print which are later and generally inferior.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Size: Print inside mount 42 x 26.5 cm. Condition: Print has a crease in it - please see image. Otherwise in very good condition, full margins and platemark, mount new. This print is from the first edition account of Captain Cook's Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, published in 1784. This was Cook's third voyage, starting in 1776, and the one in which he met his death in 1779. John Webber was the artist who accompanied Cook and his crew, and his drawings were subsequently engraved for the publication. Webber, only 27 years old at the time, went on to become a well known painter and fellow of the Royal Academy, but today is known mainly for his association with Cook and especially his painting of Cook's death and its many engraved versions. One principal purpose of Cook's voyage was to find the elusive North-West passage, which Cook failed to do. In the attempt he visited Kamchakta (in Russia), which is where Webber drew this scene. The print is on laid paper consistent with the date of 1784.

Condition: Good. 1 black and white engraving. 6x7". Light signs of wear. Some creasing. 3 folds in center. Very Good.From the collection of the late Frederick G.Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

Soft cover. OZANNE, Nicolas-Marie (1728 -1811), after WEBBER, John (1750?-1793). "View of Karakakooa Bay in Owhyhee, where Captn. Cook was Killed". ca 1785. Single sheet, tipped-in to modern mount (6 x 10 6/8 inches). EXCEPTIONALLY FINE WATERCOLOUR DRAWING, after the "View of Karakakooa Bay in Owhyhee, where Captn. Cook was Killed" by John Webber, published in 1784 to accompany the official account of Cook's third voyage, showing HMS Resolution and Discovery in the background and boats and canoes of the Hawaiians busy in the bay, all against the backdrop of a towering forest covered cliff. Provenance: with 19th-century pencilled inscription on the verso: "P Ozanne Ohaite" and "6F"; with Christie's Paris, 1st April 2016, lot 62, attributed to Pierre Ozanne One of a series of fine watercolour drawings painted in reduced format after the originals created to accompany the published accounts of Cook's voyages. Ozanne's depiction of "Resolution Bay" after William Hodges is part of the celebrated touring exhibition of the Rothschild drawings of Waddesdon Manor, see item 7 in Juliet Carey's catalogue of the exhibition "Theatres of Life.". Nicholas Ozanne was a marine artist best known for a series of views of French ports and for illustrating the works of Duhamel du Monceau. His sister, Jeanne-Françoise Ozanne (1735 - 1795), was an engraver - her works include Vues de Dieppe, de Saint- Valéry, de Livourne, des colonies françaises. His second sister, Marie-Jeanne Ozanne (1736 1786), married the engraver Le Gouaz, whilst her own works include Vue de Livourne and Temps serein, after Vernet ; the Ferme flamande and the Relais flamands, after Wouwerman. His brother, Pierre Ozanne (1737 1813) was an engraver and marine engineer, and it may be that Nicholas intended that his brother should engrave this exquisite drawing for publication, hence the inscription on the verso. The original artist of this view, John Webber, was the official artist of Cook's third voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, 1784. However he did not witness the tragic scene of Cook's death himself, and therefore did not include a depiction of it in the official account. Instead this image of Karakakooa Bay was included, and "The Death of Captain Cook" privately and separately published by Webber in 1782. It took eleven months for the news of Cook's death on the 14th February 1779 in Hawaii to reach the British Admiralty in London. Cook's third and tragic last voyage had attempted to locate the much sought-after North-West Passage, a longed-for ice-free sea route which would link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. After a long tour of the coast of Alaska as far as the Arctic Circle, Cook decided to over-winter in Hawaii, which he had named after his patron the Earl of Sandwich. "After carrying out a running survey of the easternmost of the Hawaiian Islands, Cook anchored in Kealakekua Bay on the island of Hawaii on 17 January 1779. At first he was well received and by some accounts was considered by the Hawaiians as the embodiment of their god Lono. On 4 February 1779 Cook got under way to continue his survey of the islands but was forced to return to Kealakekua Bay for repairs after the Resolution's foremast was damaged in a violent storm. It soon became clear that his return was not welcome, and bad relations culminated in the theft of the Discovery's cutter. On the morning of 14 February Cook, with less than his usual judgment, landed with an escort of marines in an attempt to persuade the local chief to return on board where he intended to hold him as a hostage against the return of the cutter. The chief readily agreed to accompany Cook, but at the landing place they were met by a hostile crowd and in the altercation that followed Cook and four of the marines were killed" (Andrew C. F. David for DNB). The most matter-of-fact account of Cook's death is to be found in the journal of First-Lieutenant James Burney (later Read Admiral): "with Glasses we could see Capt'n. Cook r.

Engraving with etching, 260 x 405mm (plate size), 425 x 585mm (sheet size), some very light spotting to the margins, small fault (20 x 5mm) to edge of plate mark, not touching image, mounted. This engraving after a drawing by Webber comes from the official account of Cook's Third Voyage, published in 1784. The Resolution and the Discovery returned to Hawai'i on 17 January 1779. When the vessels arrived at Kealakekua Bay on the western shore of the island, Cook recorded in his journal that about 1000 canoes came out to meet the two ships. Cook was afforded god-like status and Kalani'opu'u (known to the Europeans as Terryaboo, King of Hawaii) took the cloak from his own shoulders and put it around Cook's. King also mentions that Kalani'opu'u 'put a feathered cap upon his head, & a very handsome fly flap in his hand: besides which he laid down at the Captain's feet 5 or 6 Cloaks more, all very beautiful, & to them of the greatest value'. The scene depicted here most likely took place on 19th January, 1779. Cook, with a cloak around his shoulders, sits with three of his officers in front of a sacred building with 17 Hawai'ian men in front of them, whilst another man kneels to the side of the main group one of the Hawai'ans offers up an animal to Cook. It is interesting to note that the print does not show the many carved idols and skulls impaled on poles recorded by members of the expedition who saw this place. Beddie, 1743 [60].

Engraving, 253 x 533 mm. to plate mark, paper size 290 x 540 mm.; a little light old creasing at right side; in fine condition. Rare proof impression of one of the most atmospheric views made by Webber to illustrate Cook's third voyage: the St Peter and Paul ostrog as seen during the expedition's first visit to Avacha Bay. This wonderful panorama of St Peter and St Paul, with Cook's ships at anchor in the bay, would later appear as plate 74 in the atlas to the official account of the third voyage. Webber's image depicts the small Kamchatkan settlement with its inhabitants fishing in front of their distinctive dwellings, all in an untouched landscape with wooded coastline and distant snow-covered mountains. It offers an arcadian vision of the place wildly at variance with what it would become: modern Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, now a major commercial port and the home of Russia's nuclear submarine fleet. It was at St Peter and St Paul that the battered vessels called in late April 1779, and here that Major Behm agreed to take the news of Cook's death overland to St. Petersburg. This is an early state of the print, before letters. The temporary credits here scratched into the plate are differently worded to the final version that would appear in the publication: here there is no caption identifying the view and the image is identified as "Drawn from Nature by J. Webber" and "Engraved by B.T. Pouncy". In the finished version these would be differently expressed as "J. Webber del." and "B.T. Pouncy sc.". The proof engraving is printed on a noticeably different paper and its inking is distinctly finer than the examples of the finished version with which we have compared it. The result is a greater tonal quality. Joppien and Smith discuss the Kamchatkan visit at some length in both text and catalogue volumes of their study of the art of Cook's third voyage. In their description of the related watercolour view now in the Dixson Library in Sydney they note that the original version has probably been lost and that the Dixson watercolour is probably related to the engraving process. This is a desirable and rare version of one of Webber's most successful images from Cook's third voyage. ` .

Condition: Good. Engraving on old laid paper 23 x 36cm., sheet size. Tear in right margin. Likely from "Banke's New System of Geography," 1788. Top margin with book title trimmed off.Contemporary view of Captain Cook's anchorage at Karakakooa Bay.John Webber RA (6 October 1751 - 29 May 1793) was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition.Shows dozens of Native Hawaiian canoes and sail boats going out from a coastal village. The view is also desirable in that it an early printed image to include an image of a surfboard (foreground, between the two outriggers).From an English edition of Cook's account of his 3rd Voyage. The scene was originally sketched by John Webber, who accompanied Capt. James Cook on his third voyage to the Pacific in 1776-1780.

Oval engraving, 395 x 270mm (plate size), 538 x 374mm (sheet size), 10mm closed tear repaired to upper margin, otherwise particularly fine. Rare oval variant of the well-known Bartolozzi engraving of Cook's death. Webber completed his oil painting of the scene soon after returning to London in 1780, and the print was first issued some four years later, with Bartolozzi taking responsibility for the figures, and Byrne the landscape. Joppien and Smith argue that in the original image Cook is shown as 'an innocent victim, killed in the act of pleading for peace'. This oval version of the scene focuses the attention entirely on Cook as he is surrounded by hostile Hawai'ians. Nothing can be seen of the British marines to whom Cook stretches out his arm - he stands alone, soon to fall at the hands of the angry warriors. Not in Beddie; cf. Joppien & Smith, 3.305A.

Condition: Good. Etching and drypoint . De Vesme, no. 540. Beddie, 2603; Joppien & Smith, 3.305A; Nan Kivell, p. 80. A later impression, likely early 19th Century. 425 x 480 image size not including the text beneath the image. 480 x 620 mm. sheet size. Water stained upper and lower left. Marginal tears. Tear to last palm tree middle left but image present. Small losses to upper right corner. Signed in printed text below image lower left 'Drawn by J. Webber', lower centre 'The Figures Engraved by F.Bartolozzi, R.A. Engraver to His Majesty' and lower right 'The Landscape by W.Byrne'; Publisher and date inscription cut and not present.Artist: Figures engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi (Italian, Florence 1728-1815 Lisbon)Artist: Landscape engraved by William Byrne (British, 1743-1805)Artist: After John Webber (British, 1751-1793 London)Publisher: Published by William Byrne (British, 1743-1805) , LondonPublisher: Published by John Webber (British, 1751-1793 London) , London.

Pen-and-ink wash drawing (5 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.; 14.6 x 27.3 cm), after John Webber's engraving, showing HMS "Resolution" and "Discovery" in the background, with small sailboats and canoes of the Hawaiians busy in the bay, all against a backdrop of an imposing forested mountain. BINDING/CONDITION: Tipped to a modern mount (9 1/4 x 13 1/2 in.; 23.5 x 34.3 cm). (65B2D) AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE PEN AND INK WASH DRAWING in reduced format after the original engraving that accompanied the published account of Cook's third voyage. Nicolas Ozanne's drawing skills were recognized at a very early age; when he was ten, he was given a place in the studio of Robelin, a drawing master in the Gardes de la Marine, becoming his assistant in 1742. There he came to the attention of Bigot de la Mothe, who had him draw plans for coastal gun batteries. In 1750, Nicolas Ozanne succeeded Robelin as professor of drawing. In 1751, he was commissioned to produce ship designs and engravings of Louis XVI 's trip to Le Havre in 1749. He was admitted as an assistant member of the French Royal Naval Academy and in 1757 was appointed a naval artist at the Palace of Versailles. In 1762 he was given a position in the military geographers' department and was also put in charge of educating the Dauphin's children in naval matters, contributing to the future Louis XVI's interest in the sea. As a marine artist, he is best known for an extensive series of views of French ports and for illustrating the works of Duhamel du Monceau. His brother, Pierre Ozanne (1737-1813), was an engraver and marine engineer, and it may be that Nicolas intended for his brother to engrave this exquisite drawing for publication, hence the inscription on the verso. PROVENANCE: Nineteenth-century pencil inscription on verso "P Ozanne Ohaite" and"6F"; Christie's Paris, 1 April 2016, lot 62 [attributed to Pierre Ozanne] REFERENCES: Forbes 108; Joppien 3.305A; Kroepelien 1083; O'Reilly & Reitman 417.