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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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