Gallery›Wellcome Collection›The death of Captain James Cook: a man is fighting off his attackers with the butt of a rifle, men in a boat behind him are firing rifles at those on shore. Engraving, 1794, by I. Hall and I. Thornthwaite and S. Smith after Garter.
The death of Captain James Cook: a man is fighting off his attackers with the butt of a rifle, men in a boat behind him are firing rifles at those on shore. Engraving, 1794, by I. Hall and I. Thornthwaite and S. Smith after Garter.
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The death of Captain James Cook: a man is fighting off his attackers with the butt of a rifle, men in a boat behind him are firing rifles at those on shore. Engraving, 1794, by I. Hall and I. Thornthwaite and S. Smith after Garter.

Garter · 1794

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: The death of Captain James Cook by the Indians of O, why, ee one of the Sandwich Islands. Garter pinxit. S. Smith engraved the landscape. I. Hall engraved the portrait of Captain Cook, the figures by I. Thornthwaite.

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