The inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands offering to Captain Cook the sacrifice of a pig. Etching by S. Middiman and J. Hall, 1784, after J. Webber.

  • Webber, John, 1751-1793.
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[1784]
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The inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands offering to Captain Cook the sacrifice of a pig. Etching by S. Middiman and J. Hall, 1784, after J. Webber. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Hawaii, 19 January 1779, three weeks before Cook's death. Cook, seated before an effigy, is presented by the Hawaiians with a pig which was stifled and then, when not quite dead, roasted on the embers of a fire

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[London] : [Printed for John Stockdale, Scatcherd and Whitaker, John Fielding, and John Hardy], [1784]

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1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 26.2 x 41 cm

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An offering before Capt. Cook, in the Sandwich Islands. J. Webber del. The landscape engd. by Middiman. The figures by Hall Bears number: 60

References note

Rüdiger Joppien and Bernard Smith, The art of Captain Cook's voyages, vol. 3: The voyage of the Resolution and Discovery 1776-1780, New Haven and London 1988, p. 527, no. 3.294A

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Wellcome Collection 566715i

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