Description
The extremely rare copper plate engraving after first voyage with Capt James Cook to New Zealand ca 1774.
Description:
"PIROGUE DE GUERRE DE LA NOUVELLE ZÉLANDE"
(A WAR CANOE FROM NEW ZEALAND WITH A VIEW OF GABLE END FORELAND
Artist: SYDNEY PARKINSON [drawn by (Edinburgh 1745 -Batavia 1771)
Engraver: LE VEAU [French school]
TECHNIQUE: Copper Engraving
Parkinsons's famous image of a carved Maori war canoe with high stern at right; 8 occupants standing and 45 seated.
From the first French Edition of the accounts of Cook's first voyage, published (1780) the year after the first English Edition.
Beautifully framed 500 x 301 mm
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