Scott , Edmund engraver after a drawing by John Webber( 1751 – 1793) - View of Karakakooa Bay in Owhyhee, Where Captn. Cook Was Killed. First Edition of the Engraving

London : Printed for C. Cook, circa 1787. Engraving on old laid paper 23 x 36cm. sheet size. Tear in right margin. Likely from "Banke's New System of Geography," 1788. Top margin with book title trimmed off..Contemporary view of Captain Cook's anchorage at Karakakooa Bay..John Webber RA (6 October 1751 – 29 May 1793) was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition.. Shows dozens of Native Hawaiian canoes and sail boats going out from a coastal village. The view is also desirable in that it an early printed image to include an image of a surfboard (foreground, between the two outriggers). From an English edition of Cook's account of his 3rd Voyage. The scene was originally sketched by John Webber, who accompanied Capt. James Cook on his third voyage to the Pacific in 1776-1780. .

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