1784 Captain Cook Engraving - "View of Matavia Bay, in Otaheite " - Tahiti

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Seller: mogger ✉️ (6,002) 100%, Location: Los Angeles, California, US, Ships to: WORLDWIDE & many other countries, Item: 395040096403 1784 Captain Cook Engraving - "View of Matavia Bay, in Otaheite " - Tahiti. This historic and original engraving is from Captain James Cook and George William Anderson's "A New , Authentic , and Complete Account of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority..." - see scan of cover page, not included. The work was published in London by Alexander Hogg between 1784 and 1786 The engraving entitled "View of Matavia Bay, Otaheite, taken from One Tree Hill, which Tree is a new Species of the Erythrina" is based on the drawing made by Sydney Parkinson , the official artist on board, when Cook visited Tahiti on his First Voyage in 1768.  Good condition printed on hand-laid paper with minor age-toning to the borders - see scans. Page size 15.5 x 10 inches.  See more engravings from this publication in Seller's Other Items which can be combined for mailing Note : This is an original antique print published between 1784 and 1786 and not a reproduction. 

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the English boxer, see Sidney Parkinson . Sydney Parkinson - self-portrait

Sydney Parkinson  (c. 1745 – 26 January 1771) was a Scottish  botanical illustrator  and natural history  artist. He was the first European artist to visit Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti.[1]  Parkinson was the first Quaker  to visit New Zealand.[2] The standard author abbreviation  Parkinson  is used to indicate this person as the author when citing  a botanical name .[3]

Early life and family

Parkinson was born in Edinburgh; his parents were the Edinburgh brewer Joel Parkinson, a Quaker , and his wife Elizabeth.[4]  His birth year is usually given as c. 1745 , but is somewhat suspect as his mother was born c. 1700 .[5]  He had a brother, Stanfield, and a sister, whose name was Britannia.[6] [7]  The parents were members of the Edinburgh meeting  of Quakers; John Fothergill  was another member.[7]  Parkinson's father died in 1749, leaving the family in financial difficulties.[5]  Parkinson became apprentice of a woollen draper . According to his brother, he took "a particular delight in drawing flowers, fruits and other objects of natural history", becoming "so great a proficient in that stile of painting, as to attract the notice of the most celebrated botanists."[6] [8]  While no direct evidence exists that Parkinson received formal training in art, he has been connected to William Delacour , who taught drawing and design at the Trustees' Academy , and may have been influenced by other Edinburgh artists.[9] [10]

London Silky monkey , illustration in Thomas Pennant 's 1771 book Synopsis of Quadrupeds based on a painting by Parkinson.[11]

The family moved to London c. 1766 , where Parkinson's brother Stanfield worked as an upholsterer.[12]  In 1765 and 1766, some of Parkinson's flower paintings and drawings were shown at Free Society of Artists  exhibitions.[13] [14]  Parkinson began to give drawing lessons,[15]  and the Scottish nurseryman James Lee , a fellow Quaker, employed him as teacher to his daughter Ann .[13]  Lee introduced Parkinson to Joseph Banks  in 1767.[7]  Through Banks, Parkinson also established contact with the zoologist Thomas Pennant .[13]  Parkinson produced copies of some animal paintings in the collection of Joan Gideon Loten , which were later published in some of Pennant's zoological books.[16]  His watercolours of birds of the Loten collection were painted in 1767, either from specimens or from drawings.[17]  Together with a fellow artist, Peter Paillou, Parkinson worked for Banks on the latter's collections from his 1766 voyage to Newfoundland and Labrador .[18]  He produced drawings and watercolour paintings of animals, from specimens preserved in alcohol or stuffed birds.[19]  When Banks planned a voyage to Sweden in order to meet Linnaeus  in Uppsala  and to see Lapland , he intended to take Parkinson as his draughtsman.[20]

Voyage with Captain Cook Portrait of Otegoowgoow, son of a chief of the Bay of Islands. He has a comb in his hair, an ornament of green stone in his ear, and another of a fish's tooth round his neck. Drawing by Parkinson 1769 above, 1773 engraving below.

Parkinson was employed by Joseph Banks  to travel with him on James Cook 's first voyage to the Pacific  in 1768,[21]  in HMS Endeavour . Parkinson made nearly a thousand drawings of plants and animals collected by Banks and Daniel Solander  on the voyage.[22]  He had to work in difficult conditions, living and working in a small cabin surrounded by hundreds of specimens. In Tahiti  he was plagued by swarms of flies which ate the paint as he worked. He died at sea on the way to Cape Town  of dysentery  contracted at Princes' Island off the western end of Java . Banks paid his outstanding salary to his brother.[23]

Before his travels Parkinson had taught illustration to Ann Lee , daughter of James Lee  a Hammersmith nurseryman for whom he had made illustrations.[24]  In his will Parkinson left "whatever utensils that are useful in painting or drawing to Mr. Lee’s daughter, my scholar."[25] [26]

Journal Main article: A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas

Parkinson kept a journal on board the ship until shortly before his death in January 1771.[27]  While the fair copy of the journal was lost and never found, Stanfield Parkinson obtained some of his brother's papers from Banks in 1773, and decided to publish them earlier than John Hawkesworth 's official publication of Cook's and Banks's journals.[28]  A legal injunction obtained by Hawkesworth prevented the publication until two days after his book had appeared on 10 June 1773.[29]

  • Condition: Used
  • Condition: Good
  • Artist: Sydney Parkinson
  • Type: Engraving
  • Year of Production: 1784
  • Production Technique: Copper Engraving
  • Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
  • Subject: Exploration

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