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The Life of Captain James Cook

Illustrations

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Illustrations

Frontispiece

Between Pages 80 and 81

  • 2. Whitby harbour in the mid-eighteenth century Water-colour drawing by unknown artist. Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society.

  • 3. ‘Draught of the Bay and Harbour of Gaspee’, 1758 Cook's first published map. B.M. Maps K.Mar VII 2(5).

  • 4. ‘Plan of the Harbour of Great and Little St Laurence’ By Cook. Inset in a chart of the south coast of Newfoundland, 1765. Ministry of Defence, Hydrographic Department, Taunton, C58/71.

  • 5. Portrait of Sir Hugh Palliser, by George Dance Oil painting in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

Between Pages 256 and 257

  • 6. Portrait of Joseph Banks, after Benjamin West, 1773 Mezzotint engraving by J. R. Smith. The original by West is not now known.

  • 7.

    • (a) ‘A View of part of the West Side of Georges Island’ [Tahiti] Drawing by Cook. B.M. Add. Ms 7085, fol. 8.

    • (b) ‘The West Elevation of the Fort’ [at Point Venus, Matavai Bay] Drawing by Cook. B.M. Add. Ms 7085, fol. 8.

  • 8.

    • (a) ‘A Plan of Royal or Matavie Bay in Georges Island’ [Tahiti] Drawing by Cook. B.M. Add. Ms 7085, fol. 8.

    • (b) Peaks of Matavai Bay Pen and wash drawing by Parkinson. B.M. Add. Ms 7345, fol. 44v.

  • 9. Fortified pa on arched rock, Mercury Bay Drawing by Cook, after a drawing by Parkinson. B.M. Add. Ms 7085, fol. 25.

  • 10. The watering-place in Tolaga Bay Drawing by Cook, after a drawing by Parkinson. B.M. Add. Ms 7085, fol. 21.

  • 11.

    • (a) The Endeavour at sea Drawing by Parkinson. B.M. Add. Ms 9345, fol. 16v.

    • (b) The hull of the Endeavour Drawing by Parkinson. B.M. Add. Ms 9345, fol. 57.

  • 12. ‘New Zealand War Canoe. The crew bidding defiance to the Ships Company’ Drawing by Spöring. B.M. Add. Ms 23920, fol. 48.

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  • 13. ‘A Chart of New Zeland or the Islands of Aeheinomouwe and Tovypoenammu lying in the South Sea’ By Cook. B.M. Add. Ms 7085, fol. 17.

  • 14. Entry in Cook's Journal, 16 August 1770 From the original in the National Library of Australia, Canberra.

  • 15.

    • (a) The reef where the Endeavour struck, 11 June 1770 Detail from ‘Chart of Part of the Sea Coast of New South Wales’. By Cook. B.M. Add. Ms 7085, fol. 39.

    • (b) ‘A Plan of the entrance of Endeavour River’ By Cook. B.M. Add. Ms 7085, fol. 42.

  • 16. The Endeavour being careened Engraving by W. Byrne after Parkinson.

  • 17. ‘A Map of the Southern Hemisphere’ By Cook; showing his proposed route by a strong continuous line (yellow in the original). Mitchell Library, Sydney.

Facing Page 296

  • 18. The Resolution. In colour Water-colour drawing by Henry Roberts. Mitchell Library, Sydney, D11, no. 14.

Between Pages 432 and 433

  • 19.

    • (a) Portrait of Captain Tobias Furneaux, by James Northcote, 1776 Oil painting, in the possession of the Earl of Birkenhead.

    • (b) Reinhold and George Forster at Tahiti, after J. F. Rigaud Engraving by D. Beyel.

  • 20. Portrait of Captain Cook, after William Hodges, 1777 Engraving by J. Basire. The original by Hodges is not now known.

  • 21. The ships watering by taking in ice, in 61°S Water-colour drawing by Hodges. Mitchell Library, Sydney, D 11, no. 26.

  • 22. ‘Dusky Bay in New Zeland 1773’ Unsigned plan, probably by Cook. B.M. Add. Ms 31360, fol. 56.

  • 23. ‘Family in Dusky Bay, New Zeland’ Engraving by Lerperniere after Hodges.

  • 24. ‘The Fleet of Otaheite assembled at Oparee’ Engraving by W. Woollett after Hodges.

  • 25.

    • (a) Portrait of Omai, after William Hodges Engraving by J. Caldwall.

    • (b) Portrait of O-Hedidee [Odiddy], after William Hodges Engraving by J. Caldwall.

  • 26. The Resolution off the South Sandwich Islands Pen and wash drawing by Joseph Gilbert, in his Log. Public Record Office, Adm 55/107, fol. 205.

Facing Page 496

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Between Pages 560 and 561

  • 28. Portrait of the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, by Thomas Gainsborough Oil painting in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

  • 29. Stählin's map of Russian discoveries, 1774. In An Account of the New Northern Archipelago (London, 1774), by Jacob von Stählin.

  • 30.

    • (a) Portrait of Captain James King, after Samuel Shelley Medallion engraving by L. Hogg

    • (b) Portrait of Captain John Gore, by John Webber, 1780 Oil painting in the National Library of Australia, Canberra, Nan-Kivell Collection, 3680.

  • 31. Christmas Harbour, Kerguelen's Land Water-colour drawing by William Ellis. National Library of Australia, Canberra, NanKivell Collection 53P.

  • 32. ‘Cook's interview with Natives in Adventure Bay, Van Diemen's Land, 29 January 1777’ Unsigned drawing. Ministry of Defence, Naval Library, London.

  • 33. Cook in Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand Water-colour drawing by Webber. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

  • 34. A Tongan Dance Drawing by Webber. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

  • 35. ‘A Human Sacrifice, in a Morai, in Otaheite’ Drawing by Webber, B.M. Add. Ms 15513, fol. 16.

Between Pages 672 and 673

  • 36. Portrait of Poetua, by John Webber Oil painting in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

  • 37. The Resolution at anchor in Nootka Sound Drawing by Webber. B.M. Add. Ms 15514, fol. 10.

  • 38. ‘Chart of part of the Nw Coast of America. Explored by Capt. J. Cook in 1778’ By Cook. Showing the track and discoveries of the Resolution and Discovery, 7 March-3 October 1778. Public Record Office, Adm 1/1612 (Mpi 83).

  • 39. The ships in the ice off Icy Cape, 18 August 1778 Drawing by Webber. Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.

  • 40. Meeting with the Chukchi at St Lawrence Bay Drawing by Webber. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

  • 41. ‘An Offering before Capt. Cook in the Sandwich Islands’ Engraving by S. Middiman and J. Hall after Webber.

  • 42. Kealakekua Bay with the ships at anchor Unsigned drawing, possibly by William Ellis. Public Record Office, Museum Mpm 44.

  • 43. Mrs Elizabeth Cook Oil painting by unknown artist. Mitchell Library, Sydney.

Facing Page 697

  • 44. Portrait of Captain Cook, by John Webber, 1776. In colour Oil painting in the National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.