A view in the island of Pulo Condore
John Webber, 1784-1793
As the official artist on Captain CookÂ’s third and final voyage (1776-1780), John Webber – a young man of Swiss-German origin – was charged with recording the places, people, objects and events encountered on the expedition. Sixty-three of WebberÂ’s pictures were then used to illustrate the official account of the voyage, published in 1784. Webber was the first European artist to visit many of the places on the trip, and this scene on Pulo Condore (now the Vietnamese island of Côn Son) is a unique record of the island at that time.
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Title of artwork, date
A view in the island of Pulo Condore, 1784-1793
Date supported
2016
Medium and material
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper
Dimensions
25 × 29.5cm
Grant
8000
Total cost
35000
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