An offering before Capt. Cook, in the Sandwich Islands – Antique Wall Art
![An offering before Capt. Cook, in the Sandwich Islands, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ce/ce99e91700a7-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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This historic print of An offering before Capt. Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 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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An offering before Capt. Cook, in the Sandwich Islands
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Cook's arrival in the Sandwich Islands in January 1778 is the moment this print revisits, showing islanders presenting an offering to the British navigator, whom they received as a visiting chief or deity. Europeans of the period often read such ceremonies through their own assumptions. Cook's stay ended in February 1779, when he was killed at Kealakekua Bay after a dispute over a stolen boat. The record gives no date or artist, so the print is best understood as a later European rendering of a Pacific encounter, one the Library reproduced in its 1975 *Viewpoints* selection.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on shelflist card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Hall. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 14. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 988 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114447 |
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