Category:Death of Captain Cook
Most paintings of the scene leads us to believe that Cook was trying to calm the islanders, and that image of Cook, became the authorised version of his death, as described in the official accounts of the voyage by Lieutenant James King, who succeeded him as captain, and depicted by John Webber, the official voyage artist.
But a painting by John Cleveley, from sketches made by his brother James, a carpenter on the voyage, on which the etchings were based, exposes another version of that February day when Cook, far from trying to calm the situation, fought the Hawaiians.
Based on eye-witness accounts and on sketches made by a carpenter on Cook's final voyage, Cleveley showed a version of events which chimes with what most historians believe today. Cleveley died in 1786 and by the time his four watercolours were turned into aquatints by John Martyn two years later, the changes to the scene had been made.
Clevely's previously unknown work makes clear that 18th-century engravers deployed the art of spin to boost sales of etchings depicting Cook's final moments at the hands of an angry mob. See independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-art-of-spin-painting-shows-how-engravers-brushed-over-cooks-demise-552992.html
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Media in category "Death of Captain Cook"
The following 27 files are in this category, out of 27 total.
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Book-Hawaii-Cook1.jpg 1,506 × 1,200; 1.51 MB
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Book-Hawaii-Cook2.jpg 1,503 × 1,000; 1.44 MB
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'Death of Captain James Cook', oil on canvas by George Carter, 1783.jpg 1,798 × 1,468; 639 KB
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The Death of Captain James Cook, attributed to George Carter, oval.jpg 1,242 × 936; 213 KB
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Deathofcookreproduction.jpg 450 × 298; 65 KB
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Cook-death.jpg 1,584 × 892; 420 KB
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Cookdeath5ByZoffanySQ.jpg 182 × 180; 19 KB
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Death of Captain Cook, Alexander Turnbull Library.jpg 2,824 × 2,086; 945 KB
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Death of Captain Cook.jpg 800 × 526; 94 KB
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Deathofcookoriginal.jpg 430 × 291; 26 KB
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John Cleveley the Younger, The Death of Cook (1784).jpg 450 × 298; 72 KB
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Murder of Captain Cook (1829).jpg 2,027 × 1,143; 614 KB
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The Death of Captain Cook Met DP891503.jpg 3,662 × 2,663; 3.91 MB
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The death of Captain Cook; men sail towards an island with p Wellcome V0041184.jpg 3,094 × 2,257; 3.25 MB
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The Death of Captain James Cook, by the Indians of O.Why.ee one of the Sandwich-Islands.jpg 14,908 × 11,999; 67.02 MB
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The Death of Captain James Cook, F. R. S. at Owhyhee in MDCCLXXIX.jpg 1,187 × 885; 540 KB
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The death of Captain James Cook; a man is fighting off his a Wellcome V0041185.jpg 3,128 × 2,444; 3.37 MB
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The Death Of Cook by Johann Zoffany.jpg 1,000 × 773; 241 KB
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View of Owhyhee in the Sandwich Islands in the South Seas, 1788.jpg 1,000 × 780; 51 KB
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Zoffany Death of Captain Cook.jpg 2,500 × 1,876; 1.69 MB