[COOK; TAHITI] Photograph of an eighteenth-century engraving, “Sacrifice humain qui eut lieu dans un des morais de O-Taiti”

A$120 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Papeete, Tahiti : Mrs. Sophia Hoare, [between 1880 and 1889]. Albumen print photograph of a copperplate engraving, 110 x 207 mm; unmounted; verso with the wet stamp of Mrs. S. Hoare, Photographer, Papeete, Tahiti ; in good condition with an expected amount of very light creasing. Sacrifice humain qui eut lieu dans un des marais de O-Taiti , after a drawing by John Webber, was engraved by Robert Bernard and first published in the 1778 French edition of the official account of Cook s second voyage. The original drawing was made by Webber in 1773 during Cook s second voyage. The photograph of Bernard s 1778 engraving was taken by Papeete photographer Mrs. Sophia Hoare, who sold examples of such images in loose albumen print format as souvenirs to European tourists throughout the 1880s. Provenance: James Lyle Young (1849-1929), Papeete merchant and Pacific Islands trader; by descent (Melbourne, Australia).

• Binding: Hardcover

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