Captain Cook's Meeting with the Chukchi, 1778

Pen and ink drawing with black and grey wash entitled 'Captain Cook's Meeting with the Chukchi 1778'. Cook's breif meeting with the inhabitants of the Kamchatcka peninsula of Siberia, by whom he was invited to sit ans witness a dance as indicative of peceful intentions. Webber did the drawing subsequently from quick figure and other sketches made on the spot of which examples survive.[PvdM 10/16]

Object Details

ID: PAJ2965
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Webber, John
Events: Exploration: Cook's Third Voyage, 1776
Date made: 1778
People: Tschuktschi
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Frame: 725 mm x 1070 mm x 50 mm;Primary support: 544 mm x 698 mm
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