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Tahiti, Human Sacrifice before Captian Cook, 1793.

Tahiti, Human Sacrifice before Captian Cook, 1793

"An Offering Before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Isles" (THIS TITLE IS NOT CORRECT, the title should be "A Human Sacrifice, in a Morai, in Otaheite") engraved by Heath after a picture by Webber, published in The Geographical Magazine ...., 1793 (print dated 1784.) Copper engraved antique print, good condition. Size 17 x 13.5 cms including title, plus margins with full plate mark. Ref G2741

     
 
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