Artist: John Keyse Sherwin (1751-1790) after William Hodges (1744-1797)
Title: The Landing at Tanna one of the New Hebrides
Date: 1777
School: British, XVIIIth-century
Medium: engraving and etching
Dimensions: 280 x 490mm (plate), 290 x 502mm (sheet)
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: in the plate lower left border <<Painted by W. Hodges>>; in the plate lower centre border <<The Landing at TANNA one of the NEW HEDBRIDES./ Published Feby 1st 1777. Wm Strahan, New Street, Shoe Lane, & Thos Cadell, in the Strand, London>>; in the plate lower right border <<Engraved by I.K. Sherwin./No LIX>>; in the plate just below the image above the letter N of NEW a short vertical line.
Condition: good condition on laid paper with two folds, the centre fold reinforced with a narrow strip of paper
Description: engraving by Sherwin after a painting by William Hodges now in the National Maritime Museum. Cook visited Tanna, now part of Vanuatu, in August 1774. Engraved illustration to James Cook, A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World, performed by His Majesty’s Ships the RESOLUTION and ADVENTURE, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775, 2 vols., London, W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777, II, plate LIX, fp. 54.
Reference: Rüdiger Joppien and Bernard Smith, The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages, Volume Two, The Voyage of the Resolution & Adventure 1772-1775, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985, 2.134A
Provenance: Smith’s Bookshop, Christchurch
