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However, in 2004, the original Cleveley painting was discovered in a private collection belonging to a family since 1851. James, Cleveley's brother was a member of Cook's crew, and the painting is said to concur with his drawings and eyewitness accounts. The original depicted Cook involved in
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view Cook's relationship with the Hawaiians, as during his last voyage, Cook was reported by his contemporaries to have become irrationally violent.
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One of the most famous reproductions of 'Death of Captain Cook' by John Cleveley the Younger, Aquatint Francis Jukes. It depicts Cook as a peacemaker
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A cropped version of the original painting by Cleveley which was discovered in 2004 and depicts Captain Cook and crew attempting to flee
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A catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook, to the Southern Hemisphere
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hand-to-hand combat with the native Hawaiians. The discovery of the original painting has not changed the way most
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The original watercolour painting, together with three others in a series by Cleveley, was put up for auction by
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over the course of modern world history. The much more famous reproductions, like the one at the
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This article is about paintings of the event. For the event itself, see
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and was the painting owned by Cook's widow. This painting is in the
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in 2004. The lot of four paintings sold for £318,850 (US$ 572,655).
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The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas
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Index

Death of James Cook
paintings
1779 death
Hawaiian Islands
Captain James Cook
Kealakekua Bay
John Cleveley the Younger
John Webber
paint
engraving
Honolulu Museum of Art
native Hawaiians
historians
Christie's auction house
London
The Death of Captain James Cook, 14 February 1779
Johann Zoffany
National Maritime Museum
A cropped version of the original painting by Cleveley which was discovered in 2004 and depicts Captain Cook and crew attempting to flee
One of the most famous reproductions of 'Death of Captain Cook' by John Cleveley the Younger, Aquatint Francis Jukes. It depicts Cook as a peacemaker
George Carter's 1783 version
George Carter
John Webber's 1784 version
John Webber
1790 version of Cook's death
The Death of Captain James Cook, 1794, Johan Zoffany
The Death of Captain James Cook
Johan Zoffany
"'The View of Huaheine, one of the Society Islands in the South Seas' - National Maritime Museum"
"Captain Cranky, portrait of an old explorer behaving badly"

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