6464 John Hawkesworth – A View in the Island of Huaheine – Original Copperplate Engraving – 1773

The engraving was published in 1773 in An Account of the Voyages…, edited by John Hawkesworth, and based on the sketches and notes of crew members aboard the Endeavour, including artist Sydney Parkinson. The view of Huaheine was among the earliest European visual records of the island, created shortly after Cook's anchoring there in 1769.

John Hawkesworth (c.1715–1773) was a British writer commissioned by the Admiralty to compile the official account of British exploratory voyages to the Southern Hemisphere. His multi-volume work became a landmark publication of the Enlightenment, combining geographical discovery with rich ethnographic and natural detail.

Artist or Maker: Published under the direction of John Hawkesworth

Dimensions: 28 × 40 cm

Medium: Copperplate Engraving

Date: 1773

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