A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land / Webber del. ; Cook sculp. – Vintage Photo Print
![A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land / Webber del. ; Cook sculp., [between 1770 and 1880] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7e/7e06d510efc0-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land / Webber del. ; Cook sculp., an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land / Webber del. ; Cook sculp.
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Cook's expedition gave this bay on Kerguelen Island its name because the ships anchored there on Christmas Day, 1776, during the third voyage. William Webber, the expedition's official draftsman, drew the scene, and the plate was engraved for the octavo edition of Cook's published account of the voyage. The engraving shows the cold, barren, rocky coast that sailors found on these subantarctic islands, a landscape far from the holiday its name suggests. It is a useful record of how the expedition's artists tried to show unfamiliar places to readers at home.
| Created / published | [between 1770 and 1880] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1770-1800.Engravings 1770-1800. |
| Notes | Illus. from: Cook's voyage, octavo edition. |
| Subjects | Cook, James,--1728-1779--Journeys--Kerguelen Islands. Harbors--Kerguelen Islands--1770-1800. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,276 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179103 |
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