Figures engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)Landscape engraved by William Byrne, 1743–1805, Britishafter John Webber, 1752–1793, British
Title:
The Death of Captain Cook
Date:
1783
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/2 x 23 1/2in. (47 x 59.7cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower left: "Drawn by Jn Webber"; lettered, lower right: "The Landscape by Will Byrne."; lettered, lower center: "The Figures Engd by Fras. Bartolozzi | DEATH OF CAPTN. COOK. | Published as the Act directs Jany 1;1783. by J. Webber & W:Byrne: London"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.10608
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09)The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)
Publications:
Gillian Perry, Placing faces, the portrait and the English country house in the long eighteenth century , Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2013, pp. 206-08, fig. 42, ND1314 .P533 2013 (YCBA)