John Hawkesworth L L D

Mounted in album with PAI3939-PAI4076.; Page 1. John Hawkesworth was the publisher of Captain Cook's journals from his three voyages (also publisher of John Byron and Joseph Banks). Captain James Cook (1728-1779) made three separate voyages to the Pacific (with the ships Endeavour, Resolution, Adventure, and Discovery) and did more than any other voyager to explore the Pacific and Southern Ocean. Cook not only encountered Pacific cultures for the first time, but also assembled the first large-scale collections of Pacific objects to be brought back to Europe. He was killed in Hawaii in 1779.

Object Details

ID: PAI3938
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Watson, James; Reynolds, Joshua
Date made: 1 Dec 1773
People: Hawkesworth, John
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 486 x 378 mm; Plate: 380 x 275 mm
Parts: Atlas to Cook's Voyages Vol I 1773-1777. (Illustrations are from Hawkesworth's 'Voyages to the Southern Hemisphere', all volumes, and Cook [ed. Douglas] 'A Voyage towards the South Pole... ' [1773-75], page 70 onwards) (Album)