Potatau, a man in Tahiti encountered by Captain Cook on his second voyage, 1772-1775. Engraving by J. Hall, 1777, after W. Hodges.

  • Hodges, William, 1744-1797.
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Feb.y 1st 1777
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566189i
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Potatau, a man in Tahiti encountered by Captain Cook on his second voyage, 1772-1775. Engraving by J. Hall, 1777, after W. Hodges. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Encountered by Cook in August 1773. His headdress has been turned by the engraver Hall into a turban (Joppien and Smith, loc. cit.) of the kind that appears in some of Rembrandt's portraits

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London (in New Street Shoe Lane) : Wm. Strahan ; [London] (in the Strand) : Thos. Cadell, Feb.y 1st 1777.

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1 print : engraving ; image 22.4 x 17.7 cm

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Potatow. Drawn from nature by W. Hodges. Engrav'd by I. Hall Bears number: LVI

References note

Rüdiger Joppien and Bernard Smith, The art of Captain Cook's voyages, vol. 2: The voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772-1775, New Haven and London 1985, p. 169, no. 2.55A

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Wellcome Collection 566189i

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