Christmas Sound - Tierra Del Fuego – Vintage Wall Art
(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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This antique engraving of Christmas Sound - Tierra Del Fuego brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Christmas Sound - Tierra Del Fuego
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Christmas Sound, in Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America, took its name from the holiday season in December 1774, when Captain James Cook's ships anchored there during his second voyage. The view was drawn from nature by William Hodges, the expedition's landscape painter, and engraved as a double-page plate by B.T. Pouncy and W. Watts for the official account of the voyage. Published in 1777, the plate reflects how Cook's artists documented remote southern waters that few Europeans had charted.
| Created / published | 1777 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Double-page engraving by B.T. Pouncy and W. Watts. Drawn from nature by W. Hodges. Illus. in: James Cook, a Voyages towards the South Pole (1777), v. 2. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Publ. Ind.; Disc. & Expl.; Antarctic regions; Geogr.; Ice; Birds. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 982 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150186 |
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