Lot #65 - Artist Unknown [British, Late Eighteenth Century]
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Auction House:Deutscher and Hackett
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Sale Name:Important Australian + International Fine Art including significant works from The Collection of Joan and Peter Clemenger & The Krongold Collection
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Sale Date:16 Aug 2023 ~ 7pm (AEST)
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Lot #:65
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Lot Description:Artist Unknown [British, Late Eighteenth Century]
Hippa Or Place of Retreat On An Arch’D Rock In New Zealand With A War Canoe: & A Nondescript Animal of New Holland, c.1773
pen, ink and wash on paper
17.5 x 20.5 cm (sheet)
inscribed with title below image inscribed verso: Robert Wightman / Mill Vale / March 30th 1801. accompanied by the publication The London Magazine , 1773
Related Work: Hippa or Place of Retreat on an Arch'd Rock in New Zealand with a War Canoe: & a Non Descript Animal of New Holland, c. 1773, engraving illus. in The London Magazine , August 1773, p. 367 This work appears to be the preparatory drawing for the related engraving published in 1773, printed in reverse, largely based on images from Sydney Parkinson's A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas in his Majesty's Ship , the ' Endeavour '. Individual images of the arched rock, war canoe and kangaroo have been combined to create a "spectacular glimpse of the Pacific". In the years following Cook's first [1768 - 71] and subsequent expeditions to the Pacific, extraordinary images of the region were presented to the public, largely through magazine illustrations. -
Provenance:Private collection, United Kingdom Private collection, Sydney
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References:Anderson, J., "Elegant Engravings of the Pacific: Illustrations of James Cook?s Expeditions in British Eighteenth-Century Magazines", British Art Studies , Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, I ssue 7, November 2017, p. 6
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Estimate:A$10,000 - 15,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Art
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