A funerary monument (toupapow) with a corpse on it, encountered by Captain Cook in Tahiti on his second voyage, 1772-1775. Engraving by W. Woollett, 1777, after W. Hodges.

  • Hodges, William, 1744-1797.
Date:
Feb.y 1st 1777
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566173i
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Visited by Captain Cook in August 1773

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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 ; platemark 24 x 39 cm

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A toupapow with a corpse on it attended by the chief mourner in his habit of ceremony. Drawn from nature by W. Hodges. Engrav'd by W. Wollet Bears number: XLIV

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. 167, no. 2.52A

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Wellcome Collection 566173i

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