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'Continuation of the coast, from Providence Harbour, in the Island Unalashka....'

© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London | CC BY-NC-ND

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Date

1778

Artist

William Wade Ellis (1751-1785)

Collection

Royal Museums Greenwich

Image Link

https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-140098

Description

Signed by the artist and dated,l.r. 'W. Ellis fect 1778'. The lower margin bears an inscription apparently in the same later hand as on other drawingings of the group: 'Continuation of the coast, from Providence Harbour, in the Island Unalashka, on the N.W. coast of America Saturday 27 June 1778 N side'. The authority for this is uncertain and the drawing, also like others of the group, was not included in Joppien and Smith's 1985 survey of the art of Cook's voyages: they state that Cook, on his third voyage (1776-80) was on the Alaska Peninsula from 16 to 22 June 1778 and then made a first visit to Unalaska from 28 June to 2 July (no drawings are known from the second visit of 3-26 October'). If the dating is correct, the view was presumably taken from 'Discovery' on the approach to the island, by the ship's artistic surgeon's mate and is one of ten by him in the collection (PAH0144-PAH0153).

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CC BY-NC-ND

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© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Location

Unalaska Island, Alaska, USA

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Islands
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