Portrait of Cook from his ‘Voyage Towards the South Pole’

Name: Portrait of Cook from his 'Voyage Towards the South Pole'
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HODGES, William.

Captain James Cook. F.R.S.

London, 1777. 265 x 210mm.

Stock #: 17110

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Portrait of Captain James Cook, engraved by James Basire from a portrait by William Hodges, published as the frontispiece to 'A Voyage towards the South Pole', the offiical account of Cook's Second Voyage. On this expedition (1772-5) he circumnavigated the world as far south as he could, attempting to locate any 'Terra Australis Incognita'.