Francesco Bartolozzi; William Byrne; after John Webber
1725-1815; 1743-1805; 1751-1793

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Francesco Bartolozzi; William Byrne; after John Webber

1725-1815; 1743-1805; 1751-1793
THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK 1784

engraving
signed in printed text below image lower left 'Drawn by J. Webber', lower centre 'The Figures Engraved by F.Bartolozzi, R.A. Engraver to His Majesty' and lower right 'The Landscape by W.Byrne'; dated in printed text below image bottom centre (now lost) 'Published as the Act Directs 1st January 1784'
42.2 X 58.1CM (image); 46.1 X 60.1CM (sheet)

• Lot Sold $7,500 (Hammer Price)
• $9,150 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Private Collection, South Australia

Exhibited

Capt. James Cook, Navigator: The Achievements of Captain James Cook as a Seaman, Navigator and Surveyor, World Expo 88, Brisbane, April - October 1988, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 8 February - 29 March 1989, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 April - 18 July 1989, no. M 2898 (another impression) \x93A Curious Variety of Mazes and Meanders,\x94 The Voyages of Captain James Cook in the Global Eighteenth Century, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Library Department of Special Collections, Los Angeles, November - December 1999, no. 52 (another impression)

Literature

M.K. Beddie (ed.), Bibliography of Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., Circumnavigator (second ed.), The Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 1970, p. 478 (no. 2603, another impression) Rex Nan Kivell and Sydney A. Spence, Portraits of the Famous and Infamous: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, 1492-1970, The authors, London, 1974, p. 77 (illustrated, another impression) R\xFCdiger Joppien and Bernard Smith, The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985-1987, Vol. 3, Part 2, p. 537, (cat. 3.305A) (illustrated, another impression) David Cordingly (ed.), Captain James Cook, Navigator: The Achievements of Captain James Cook as a Seaman, Navigator and Surveyor, National Maritime Museum, London in association with Campbell Publishing, Sydney, 1988, p. 105 (illustrated, another impression) Glyn Williams, The Death of Captain Cook: A Hero Made and Unmade, London: Profile Books, London, 2008, p. 72 (illustrated, another impression)