Titolo: Endeavouring Banks: Exploring the Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768 - 1771
Editore: Paul Holberton Publishing
Data di pubblicazione: 2016
Lingua: Inglese
ISBN 10: 1907372903
ISBN 13: 9781907372902
Rilegatura: Rilegato
Condizione: New

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Riassunto

When English naturalist Joseph Banks (1743–1820) accompanied Captain James Cook (1728–1779) on his historic mission into the Pacific, the Endeavour voyage of 1768–1771, he took with him a team of collectors and illustrators.

Along with specimens and artefacts, contemporary portraits of key personalities aboard the ship, scale models and plans of Endeavour itself, scientific instruments taken on the voyage, commemorative medals and sketches, the objects (over 140) featured in this new book tell the story of the Endeavour voyage and its impact ahead of the 250th anniversary in 2018 of the launch of this seminal mission. Items separated in some cases for more than two centuries are brought together to reveal their fascinating history not only during but since that mission. Original voyage specimens will feature together with illustrations and descriptions of them, showing a rich diversity of newly discovered species and how Banks organized this material, planning but ultimately failing to publish it. Drawings of people and places visited during the mission are reproduced. And by comparing these voyage originals with the often stylized engravings later produced in London for the official account, this book investigates how knowledge gained on the mission was gathered, later revised and then printed in Europe.

The book focuses on the contribution of Banks’s often neglected artists – Sydney Parkinson, Herman Diedrich Sp�ring, Alexander Buchan as well as the priest Tupaia, who joined Endeavour in the Society Islands – none of whom survived the mission. These men illustrated island scenes of bays, dwellings, canoes as well as the dress, faces, possessions and ceremonies of Pacific peoples. Of particular interest, and only recently recognised as by him, are the original artworks of Tupaia, who produced as part of this mission the first charts and illustrations on paper by any Polynesian. The surviving Endeavour voyage illustrations and maps were the most important body of images produced since Europeans entered this region, matching the truly historic value of the plant specimens and artefacts seen alongside them in this handsome book.

Recensione

A superbly assembled survey of the Endeavour collections ... a splendid and worthy contribution to Enlightenment studies. --Literary Review

Published two years after the exhibition, this catalogue has been worth the wait. It will be of great value as we approach the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the Endeavour voyage, and of the formation by Joseph Banks of the Endeavour collection. --Cook's Log

An inspiring tome. --NZ Gardener

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