John Cleveley the Younger, Views of the South Seas (No. 2 of 4)

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John Cleveley the Younger, Views of the South Seas (No. 2 of 4)

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Views of the South Seas, a set of four.
1. View of Huaheine, one of the Society Islands;
2. View of Morea, one of the Friendly Islands;
3. View of Charlotte Sound in New Zealand (sic, actually a view in Matavai Bay, Tahiti);
4. View of Owhyhee, one of the Sandwich Islands (also known as 'The Death of Cook')
hand-coloured aquatints published by F. Jukes in 1787-88. 43 x 59cm (16 15/16 x 23 1/4in) (image size)

(4). This rare set of four aquatints relates to Cook's Third Voyage. The watercolours from which these prints were engraved were painted by James Cleveley, carpenter on HMS Resolution. According to the imprint on the aquatints, the original sketches were repainted by James's brother, John, in London. Cleveley died in 1786 and by the time his four watercolours were turned into aquatints by John Martyn two years later.

Set of images depicting various harbors, ports, and piers together with ships, fishing and sailing boats, and all types of haven-like places and views. All large image sets on Picryl.com are made in two steps: First, we picked a set to train AI vision to recognize the feature, and after that, we ran all 25M+ images in our database through an image recognition machine. As usual, all media in the collection belong to the public domain. There is no limitation on the dataset usage - educational, scientific, or commercial.

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1787 - 1788
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