Sharp (William)

a delightful pair of plates, after John Webber, from ‘A Voyage to the Pacific’, recounting the last, fateful, expedition of Captain James Cook, with it’s accompanying visual record by Webber, appointed as the official artist, who here conveys the wonderment of the European explorers, depicted in shadow in the foreground, as they gaze upon these beautiful tribal dances laid on to entertain them on the beach of Ha’apai, one of the islands of Tonga,

engravings for plates 16 and 17, each c.270 x 410 mm. (10 5/8 x 16 1/8 in), the second title with a repaired tear in the lower margin and is unevenly trimmed along the upper sheet edge, but all well outside the plate,