A View of the Island of Otaheite, with several vessels of that island (first state)

The first of three such engravings of the island of Otaheite in the South Pacific. Otaheite was originally named Port Royal Harbour in King George the Third's Island by Captain Samuel Wallis (1728-1795). This original field drawing was by Sydney Parkinson, a Scottish botanist and natural history artist employed by Joseph Banks on Captain James Cook's first Endeavor voyage to the Pacific from 1768-1771. The drawing was then engraved in John Hawkesworth's Voyages (an account of the journeys by Captain Cook, Vice Admiral John Byron, and Joseph Banks published on behalf of the Admirality in 1773).

Mounted in album with PAI3938-PAI3959, PAI3961-PAI4076.; Page 21.

Object Details

ID: PAI3960
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Rooker, Edward
Date made: 1770s
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 273 x 435 mm; Plate: 238 x 427 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)