EIN MIMISCHER TANZ IN OTAHEITE.
Technique: Copper engraving.
Image area:130 x 204 mm.
Sheet: 194 x 234 mm.
Copper engraving based on drawing by William Wilson. From German edition of Description of an English missionary trip to the southern Pacific Ocean in the years 1796, 1797 and 1798 in the ship Duff' the account of the findings of Captain Wilson and Captain Cook.
Loose folding sheet. Paper with watermark. Book illustration [1816]. - Nearly intact. Collector's condition.
<ID:GU52013> Price: 600,- CZK

William Wilson was a sailor and chief mate on the ship Duff on a missionary voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean. He is the author of a book on the voyage (published 1799), for which he provided sketches.