LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pencil, pen and ink and watercolor on paper

Measurements:

22.17 in. (56.30 cm.) (height) by 18.23 in. (46.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'J. Webber. del 1784.' (lower left), with inscription 'Webber / 814' on the mount, with Sir Bruce Ingram's collector's stamp on the reverse of the mount

Exhibited:

(possibly) London, Royal Academy, 1785, no.491 ('View in Nootka; Drawing.').

Literature:

F. Edwards, Catalogue of the Australasian Collection of Books and Pictures formed by the late James Edge-Partington, London, 1934, 169 (2539). R. Joppien and B. Smith, The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages, Volume Three Catalogue, The Voyage of the "Resolution" and "Discovery" 1776-1780, pp.247, 453, 3.214.

Provenance:

with Francis Edwards, 1929 (unnumbered catalogue no 6: 'A fine spirited picture of a view on the Coast of Kamschatka, showing natives in a canoe, others by the side of a stream, with hills and mountains raising up in the rear.'). James Edge-Partington (1854-1930). with Francis Edwards (Catalogue of the Australasian Collection of Books and Pictures formed by the late James Edge-Partington, London, 1934, 169 (2539 'Original Water-color Drawing of a View in Kamschatka, painted by J. Webber from a Sketch made during Cook's Third Voyage, size 22 by 18 in., signed and dated 1784 £28') Sir Bruce S. Ingram, OBE, MC (1877-1963). Dr Carl Schaefer Dentzel, Northridge, California (1913-1980). Mrs Carl Schaefer Dentzel, Northridge, California. Private collection, California.