HMS Endeavour

by James Williamson

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Price

$3,400

Dimensions

36.000 x 24.000 inches

Title

HMS Endeavour

Artist

James Williamson

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

HMS Endeavour, sail on, sail on, thou fearless barque, where'er blows the welcome winds.
Excerpt from a poem by Thomas Moore.
Oil on canvas painting by artist James Williamson.

Artist James Williamson ASMA,
Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists

The first voyage of H M S Endeavour 1768 - 1771. 366 tons, Lieutenant James Cook, 5 officers and 88 men; Joseph Banks, naturalist; Daniel Carl Solander, naturalist; Charles Green, astronomer; Sydney Parkinson, artist; Alexander Buchan, Artist; Diedrich Herman Sporing, assistant naturalist. Total 100 men.

She was commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific and sailed from Deptford on 21 July 1768. A cat-built bark, she was of large capacity, but at the same time small enough to be maintained by her crew without dockyard support and therefore particularly suited for long range exploration.

On his first voyage, Cook was accompanied by wealthy young Mr. Joseph Banks aged 25, a Fellow and later President of the Royal Society, a keen natural historian and patron of science. Banks undertook the world voyage partly in place of making the fashionable Grand Tour of European capitals and partly to further scientific knowledge.

At his own expense Banks took with him naturalists and natural history artists to record in faithful and methodical detail the fauna, flora, sea-life, and peoples met with and their manner of living, both to provide a firmer basis for natural philosophy and to entertain his friends on his return.

Unfortunately, one artist, Buchan, died when Tahiti was reached in 1769, and the other, Parkinson, after leaving Batavia on the voyage home. It is, therefore, chiefly from published engravings of Parkinson's works made by other artists that western society got its first visual impression of the hitherto virtually unknown world of the South Pacific.

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