This is one of a set of four prints - in this case uncoloured - from Cleveley's well-known series illustrating Captain James Cook's third voyage to the Pacific. For a coloured version see PAI0472. It shows the 'Resolution' and 'Discovery' at Moorea (now called Eimeo). According both to the captions on the prints and to the publisher's advertisement, original drawings were made during the voyage by James Cleveley, carpenter in the 'Resolution', and then turned into finished images by his brother John after James's return. Sets of titled engravings were produced by Francis Jukes and published by Thomas Martyn. Some doubts have been cast on whether these are based on original drawings by James as they contain details not accurate to the Pacific at the time, but rather taken from its wider European iconography (see Rüdiger Joppien and Bernard Smith, 'The Cleveley problem', vol. III, pp. 216-221 in 'The Art of Cook's Voyages' [3 vols., Yale UP 1988]).

The other three views show 'View of Morea, one of the Friendly Islands' (Moorea today being called Eimeo), 'View of Charlotte Sound in New Zealand' (actually a view in Matavai Bay, Tahiti), 'View of Owhyhee [Hawaia], one of the Sandwich Islands' (also known as 'The Death of Cook': see PAH7776). Three oil paintings of these views -excluding the last -are in the NMM collections; BHC1838, BHC1896 (the present one) and BHC1939, but they are probably copies after the prints and not by Cleveley.