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[CAPTAIN COOK'S LAST VOYAGE] [after] WEBBER, JOHN. 1751-1793. Boxing Match Before Capt. Cook at Owhyhee..., London: Francis Edwards Ltd., [1919]. image 1
[CAPTAIN COOK'S LAST VOYAGE] [after] WEBBER, JOHN. 1751-1793. Boxing Match Before Capt. Cook at Owhyhee..., London: Francis Edwards Ltd., [1919]. image 2
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[CAPTAIN COOK'S LAST VOYAGE] [after] WEBBER, JOHN. 1751-1793.
Boxing Match Before Capt. Cook at Owhyhee..., London: Francis Edwards Ltd., [1919].

31 October 2023, 12:00 EDT
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[CAPTAIN COOK'S LAST VOYAGE]

[after] WEBBER, JOHN. 1751-1793. Boxing Match Before Capt. Cook at Owhyhee..., Photogravure print, matted and framed, frame 29 3/4 X 39 3/4 in., image area 20 1/2 x 30 in. Not examined out of frame.

This print was created in 1919 by the London publisher Francis Edwards Ltd. from a pen-and-wash drawing (now in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu) by Webber, who was the official artist for the Cook expedition. The drawing was never engraved and therefore not published at the same time as the rest of Webber's images. Edwards made two errors in the caption text: The year is given as 1770 rather than 1779, and Webber's first name is incorrectly given as James. An unknown but undoubtedly small number were offered for sale by Edwards, and the print is now very rare.

This example was purchased in the early 1980s from Lahaina Printsellers in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii.,
London: Francis Edwards Ltd., [1919].

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