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John Cleveley was chosen as one of the natural-history draughtsmen to accompany Joseph Banks on Cook’s second Pacific voyage. When the alterations Banks had made to the Resolution to accommodate his party were removed—they had made the vessel unseaworthy—he withdrew from the voyage. Cleveley never did travel to the Pacific, but his brother James, who was enlisted as a carpenter on the Resolution for Cook’s third voyage, is said to have made drawings which his brother John used as the basis of this painting. |
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