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'View of the Rock & the adjacent country at the entrance of the Bay of Awatchska on Kamtschatka'

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

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Date

1779

Artist

William Wade Ellis (1751-1785)

Collection

Royal Museums Greenwich

Image Link

https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-140097

Description

Inscribed in lower margin, as title, and in the top of the drawing 'Monday a.m. at 8', both apparently by the artist though the drawing is not signed. The upper line has had '26th April 1779' added in pensil which, if by Ellis and accurate, suggests it was made on the first visit of Cook's ships to Avacha Bay, Kamchatka, although Joppien and Smith's catalogue of the art of Cook's voyages (vol. III, p. 555, [1985]) dates arrival to the 29th and does not apparently include this drawing at all. The view was taken on Cook's third voyage (1776-80), presumably from 'Discovery' 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

Image Credit

© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Location

Kamchatka Krai, Russia

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