[Thomas Bankes]: Bankes’s New System of Geography. A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography Antient [sic] and Modern
Dublin Core
Subject
Captain James Cook; Geography; allegory;
Description
Frontispiece:
The Apotheosis of Captain James Cook [Neptune Raising Captain Cook to Immortality]: "NEPTUNE raising CAPT COOK up to immortality, a GENIUS crowning him with a Wreath of Oak, and FAME introducing him to History. In the Front Ground are the FOUR QUARTERS of the WORLD presenting to BRITANNIA their various stores."
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The Apotheosis of Captain James Cook [Neptune Raising Captain Cook to Immortality]: "NEPTUNE raising CAPT COOK up to immortality, a GENIUS crowning him with a Wreath of Oak, and FAME introducing him to History. In the Front Ground are the FOUR QUARTERS of the WORLD presenting to BRITANNIA their various stores."
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Source
Image many times on trade sites; no digital edition of the 1787 book has been identified
Publisher
London: printed for J. Cooke
Date
1787 [–1790]
Contributor
Engraved by J. Neagle;
Ornamented by W. Grainger.
Ornamented by W. Grainger.
Rights
Bridgeman Art Library, New York. Image nr. UIG 542222 and Nr. XJF133398
Relation
Other plates not signed; not by Ramberg
Language
English
Text
Smith, Bernard. Imagining the Pacific: In the Wake of the Cook Voyages. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992, S. 234.
