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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  The Art of Constant Rearrangement
• Sale Date:
  05 May 2019 ~ 12noon (AEST)
• Lot #:
  20
• Lot Description:
  John Webber
  (1751 - 1793)
  The Narta or Sledge for Burdens in Kamtschatka (Not mentioned in Cook’s Last Voyage)
  Aquatint with large margins and very fine hand colour on watermarked paper, ‘J. Whatman. 1819’.
  32.5 x 45cm
• Notes:
  John Webber was the official artist on Cook’s final voyage through the Pacific; his drawings formed the basis for printed illustrations to the account of ‘A Voyage to the Pacific’, published in 1784. These are among the few coloured plates resulting from Cook’s Voyages. The original drawings are in the possession of The Board of Admiralty London. “The title page is dated 1808 in all copies, but the plate imprints are dated April, 1809, and the watermark dates vary widely copy by copy, apparently a feature peculiar to Boydell’s colour plate books” (Hill).
• Estimate:
  A$750 - 1,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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