Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
31979
Record number:
31979-9
JCB call number:
D790 C771c
Image title:
The Inside of a House in Oonalashka.
Creator 1:
Ralph Beilby
Creator 1 dates:
1744-1817
Creator 1 role:
scult.
Creator 2:
Thomas Bewick
Creator 2 dates:
1753-1828
Creator 2 role:
scult.
Place image published:
[Newcastle]
Image publisher:
[M. Brown]
Image date:
[1790]
Image function:
plate; vol. 3, following p. 586
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
10.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
16.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
20.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
12.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Interior of a native American house in Unalaska (in the Aleutian Islands in present-day Alaska). Includes ladder, baby, and baskets.
Source creator:
Cook, James, 1728-1779
Source Title:
Captain Cook's voyages round the world ...
Source place of publication:
[Newcastle]
Source publisher:
Printed by M. Brown, at the Bible, in the Flesh-Market
Source date:
M.DCC.XC. [1790]
notes:
This engraving was made from a drawing by John Webber, the official artist of Cook's third voyage. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities; Indigenous peoples
geographic area:
North America
Subject headings:
Indians of North America--Dwellings
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1957.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912

The Inside of a House in Oonalashka.