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Image number: RS.9199
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Inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego
Date
1773
Creator
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727 - 1815, Italian) , Engraver
After
Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785, Italian) , Artist
Object type
Library reference
43369
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 230mm
width (print): 295mm
width (print): 295mm
Subject
Description
Inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, seen by Lieutenant James Cook's Endeavour party in January 1769. The town "consisted of about twelve or fourteen hovels, of the most rude and inartificial structure that can be imagined ... forming a kind of cone, like some of our bee-hives". Illustration from An account of the voyages ...for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, by John Hawkesworth (London, 1773).
Associated place