Omai, a Native of the Island of Utietea [i.e. Ulietea] (detail) Les Sauvages de la mer Pacifique 1805 Cook & Omai: The Cult of the South Seas Les Sauvages de la mer Pacifique 1805
Introduction The truest picture of an arcadia A Noble Savage in London The deaths of Cook and Omai Epilogue


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Mort tragique du Capitaine Cook, le 15 février, 1779, sur la côte d’Owhy-hee, l’une des Isles Sandwich, découverte par ce navigateur

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Claude-Mathieu Fessard, engraver
(b.1740)
after John Webber (1752–1793)
Mort tragique du Capitaine Cook,
le 15 février, 1779, sur la côte
d’Owhy-hee, l’une des Isles Sandwich,
découverte par ce navigateur

Paris: 178-?
engraving; 28.4 x 32.5 cm
Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK6565
Pictorial Collection U1190

 

The importance of discoveries made during Cook’s three Pacific voyages was seen to transcend national rivalries, and translations of his voyage accounts and publications of his maps brought his achievements, and news of his death, to a wide audience.

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