Unidentified artist after John James Barralet
Pirogue de Guerre de la Nouvelle Zélande
1774

Artist: Unidentified artist after John James Barralet (1747-1815) after Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771)
Title: Pirogue de Guerre de la Nouvelle Zélande
Date: 1774
School: French, XVIIIth-century
Medium: etching and engraving
Dimensions: 210 x 345mm
Watermark: none visible
Inscriptions/marks: in the plate lower centre border <<Pirogue de Guerre de la Nouvelle Zélande.>>, in the plate lower right border <<le Veau Dir.>>, in the plate upper right border <<Tome III. Pl.14>>
Condition: good condition, stuck down onto mount
Description: Side-on view of a Maori war canoe with warriors. French copy after Barralet’s engraving from Sydney Parkinson’s drawing for the published account of Cook’s first voyage. John Hawkesworth, An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere ….  3 vols, London, W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1773. From the first French edition of Hawkeworth’s Relation des voyages.… 1774