1785 View of Huaheine
DESCRIPTION
The harbor of Huaheine with Cook's ships at anchor appears in this excerpted plate from the French edition of the official account of Captain Cook's third voyage.
In it, steep lushly forested peaks rise above a palm-lined shore while two ships ride at anchor in the bay at right. Canoes, some under sail, cross the calm water in the foreground, and figures gather beside a hut and a beached canoe at lower left. The caption reads "Vue de Huaheine," or "View of Huaheine."
Cook's Third Voyage
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage, aboard the Resolution and Discovery from 1776 to 1780, crossed the Pacific by way of Tonga and Tahiti before sailing north to the coast of northwest America, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands. Cook was killed in Hawaii in 1779, and his ships returned home under other commanders. The expedition's artist, John Webber, recorded the people, places, and objects they encountered, and his drawings were engraved for the official account published in London in 1784. A French translation followed in Paris in 1785, with its plates re-engraved under the direction of Robert Bénard.
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