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Rare 18th-C. Original Watercolor After Webber

Title: A Man of Oonalashka
Author: Webber, John (after)
Description: Original ink and watercolor illustration after John Webber. 10¾x7½, image is 8¾x7½.One of the earliest student drawings from Cook's Third Voyage. Dated Aug. 1784, the same month and year as the publication of the account of Cook's third (and final) voyage. Portrait of an Aleutian native - "[All] of them have a kind of oval snouted cap, made of wood, with a rim to admit the head...round the upper part of the rim are stuck the long bristles of some sea-animal, on which are strung glass beads."
Heading: zzc (Cook, James)Place Published:
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Date Published: 1784