Bilder John Hawkesworth (1715–1773) – Chart from York Bay to Three Island Bay and St. Davids Bay (Australia) – Engraving (1774)

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This engraving is a nautical chart detailing several bays on the coast of New Holland (Australia), including "From York Bay to Three Island Bay and Harbour" and "St. Davids Bay." The map includes soundings and rhumb lines, created for navigational purposes. It was published to accompany the 1774 French edition of Hawkesworth's atlas, Relation des voyages, which chronicled Captain James Cook's first voyage.

John Hawkesworth was an English writer and editor. He was commissioned by the Admiralty to compile and edit the official account of Captain Cook's first voyage, along with the voyages of Byron, Wallis, and Carteret. This work, An Account of the Voyages... in the Southern Hemisphere (1773), became a bestseller and was quickly translated, including this 1774 French edition.

Artist or Maker: John Hawkesworth

Dimensions: Approximately 25 cm x 23 cm

Medium: Engraving

Date: 1774

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