COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
29551
Record number:
29551-9
JCB call number:
D784 C771vo / 3-SIZE
Image title:
A Woman of Prince William's Sound.
Creator 1:
John Webber
Creator 1 dates:
1752-1793
Creator 1 role:
del.
Creator 2:
J. Basire
Creator 2 role:
sculpt.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[W. and A. Strahan]
Image date:
[1784]
Image function:
plate 47; vol. 3
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
22.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
18 cm.
Page dimension height:
55 cm.
Page dimension width:
40.2 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Native American [Eskimo] woman wears skin garments or clothing and has ear, nose, and lip ornaments or labrets.
Source creator:
Cook, James, 1728-1779
Source Title:
A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern hemisphere, to determine the position and extent of the west side of North America ... [Vol. 3]
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed by W. and A. Strahan: for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand and T. Cadell, in the Strand
Source date:
MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]
notes:
Prince William Sound is southeast of the Kenai Peninsula in present-day Alaska.John Webber accompanied Cook on his third voyage to the Pacific.The engraver is probably James Basire the elder (1730-1802) or the younger (1769-1822).For a different version of this image, see James Cook, A voyage to the Pacific Ocean, London, 1784 (#94-59-6).
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1944.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Eskimos--Clothing--Alaska
A Woman of Prince William's Sound.
