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R-K101 - J. WEBBER/R. BENARD “Homme Du Kamtchatka.” Paris. 1785. B/W. 9½X7. This fine portrait of a man from Kamtchatka was drawn by John Webber, who accompanied Capt. James Cook on his third voyage to the Pacific in 1776-1780. After Cook's death in Hawaii in February 1779, Cook's lieutenants Clerke and Gore took his ships the Resolution and Discovery to Kamtchatka, a peninsula off Russia's eastern Siberian coast and moored off Petropavlovsk, a sheltered harbor they called St. Peter and St. Paul, now the capital of Kamtchatka. During the six weeks the ships lay there, Webber did many drawings of the natives and their habitats. The drawing was engraved by Robert Benard and was included in the French edition of Cook's Voyages. 

R-K102 - J. WEBBER/R. BENARD “Homme Du Kamtchatka Voyageant en Hiver.” Paris. 1785. B/W. 9X14. This attractive scene was drawn by John Webber who accompanied Capt. James Cook on his third voyage to the Pacific in 1776-1780. It shows a man from Kamtchatka traveling on a sleigh pulled by Huskies, the native Siberian dogs, across a snow covered landscape in winter. Webber's drawing was engraved by Robert Benard and was included in the French edition of Cook's Voyages.

R-K103 - J. WEBBER/R. BENARD “Habitations D'Ete Et D'Hiver Du Kamtchatka.” Paris. 1785. B/W. 9X14. This interesting scene of the summer and winter dwellings of the Kamtchatka natives, was drawn by John Webber, a young artist, who accompanied Capt. James Cook on his third voyage to the Pacific in 1776-1780. Webber was fascinated with the natives and their habitations, and drew them wherever and whenever, Cook' ships anchored in harbors throughout the Pacific and Pacific Northwest. This scene was engraved in Paris by Robert Benard and was included in the French edition of Cook's Voyages.

R-K105 - J. WEBBER/R. BENARD “Interieur D'Une Habitation D'Hiver Du Kamtchatka.” Paris. 1785. B/W. 9ΌX14. This scene inside a winter habitation with natives on the Kamtchatka Peninsula on Russia's eastern Siberian coast, was drawn by John Webber, a young artist who accompanied Capt. James Cook on his third voyage to the Pacific in 1776-1780. Engraved by master engraver Robert Benard, in Paris, the scene was included in the French edition of Capt. James Cook's Voyages.

R-K106 - J. WEBBER/R. BENARD “Traineau Des Kamtchadales.” Paris. 1785. B/W. 6ΎX9Ύ. This fine sketch of a Russian sledge was drawn by John Webber, a young artist, who accompanied Capt. James Cook on his third voyage to the Pacific in 1776-1780. The sledge was made & used by the natives of Kamtchatka, a peninsula off Russia's eastern Siberian coast, and pulled by Siberian Huskie dogs across the snow in winter. The sketch was engraved by Robert Benard in Paris and included in the French Edition of Capt. James Cook's Voyages.

R-K108 - J. COOK/J. WEBBER “Une Femme Du Kamtchatka.” Paris. 1785. B/W. 9X7. This fine portrait of a woman from Kamtchatka was sketched by John Webber, a young talented artist who accompanied Capt. James Cook on his third voyage to the Pacific in 1776-1780. After Cook's death in Hawaii in 1779, Cook's Lieutenants, Clerke and Gore took the ships Resolution and Discovery to Kamtchatka, a peninsula off Russia's eastern Siberian coast, and anchored off Petropavlovsk, a sheltered harbor they called St. Peter and St. Paul, now the capital of Kamtchatka. During the 6 weeks the ships lay there at anchor, Webber did many drawings of the natives and their habitations. This sketch was engraved by Robert Benard, a master engraver in Paris for inclusion in the French edition of the Voyages of Capt. Cook, published in Paris in 1785.

R-K109 - J. WEBBER “A Man of Kamtschatka Travelling in Winter.” London. 1784. B/W. 8½X15. This finely engraced scene was drawn by John Webber, a young artist who accompanied Capt. James Cook on his third voyage to the Pacific in 1776-1780. It depicts a man from Kamtschatka traveling in a sleigh pulled by Huskies, the native Siberian dogs, across a snow covered landscape in winter. The scene was engraved by S. Middiman and was published in the official account of Cook's Third Voyage by Nicol and Cadell in London in 1784. (Note. This is a particularly fine copper engraving on handmade rag paper with John Webber's name noted in lower left outside of the image.)

R-K110 - J. COOK/W BLIGH “Plan of the Bay of Awatska on the East Coast of Kamtschatka.” London. 1784. Colored. 10X7½. After Capt. James Cook was killed in Hawaii in February, 1779, his ships the Resolution and Discovery, commanded by Capts. Clerke and Gore, sailed across the Pacific from Hawaii to Kamtschatka, arriving off the harbor of St. Peter and St. Paul in late April, 1779 where they anchored. While there William Bligh, who had sailed with Cook as Master of the Resolution, sketched the Bay of Awatska plus the scene shown in top left of the harbors of St. Peter and St. Paul (Russian Petropavlosk). Upon Bligh's return to England his sketches were engraved and included in “Atlas to a Voyage to the Pacific,” published in London by George Nicol in London in 1784.

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