The Landing at Middleburgh one of the Friendly Isles (unfinished state)

This engraving, after a drawing by artist William Hodges, is in John Hawkesworth's account (1773) of the voyages of Captain James Cook, Joseph Banks and Captain John Byron.

Here, Captain Cook (1728 – 1779) is in a boat with small party of sailors coming ashore at Eua Island, Tonga. Islanders are greeting the Europeans, with the HMS Resolution in background. William Hodges (1744 - 1797) joined Cook's second expedition to the South Pacific as a draughtsman 1772-75 and was employed by the Admiralty in finishing his drawings.

Mounted in album with PAI2055-PAI2074, PAI2076-PAI2127.; No.19.

Object Details

ID: PAI2075
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Hodges, William [aritst]
Places: Unlinked place
Events: Exploration: Cook's Second Voyage, 1772
Date made: 1777
People: Cook, James
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 270 x 493 mm; page: 460 mm x 590 mm
Parts: Volume of Plates to Cook's Voyages. Voyage II (Album)