Houses in Nootka Sound
About this artwork
Webber was the official artist on Captain Cook’s third voyage of 1776-80. Their vessel, the Resolution reached Nootka Sound on the west coast of New Albion (now Vancouver Island) on 29 March 1778, and remained until 26 April. This was the first sustained contact between Europeans and the native people of the region. Weber made drawings of their homes, costumes, artefacts, and the customs he encountered, as well as the surrounding landscape. Over thirty canoes, like the ones seen here, were rowed out into the Sound to greet Cook and his crew when they arrived.
Updated before 2020
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artist:John Webber (1751 - 1793) English
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title:Houses in Nootka Sound
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date created:1778
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materials:Pencil, pen and wash on paper
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measurements:36.30 x 51.70 cm
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object type:
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credit line:David Laing Bequest to the Royal Scottish Academy transferred 1910
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accession number:D 1452
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gallery:
John Webber
John Webber
Webber was the son of the Swiss sculptor Abraham Wäber. He trained in Berne with the landscape painter Johann Ludwig Aberli, and then from 1770 studied at the Académie Royale in Paris. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in London and exhibited there in 1776. His work impressed the botanist Dr...