National Centennial Exhibition of New Zealand Art Catalogue

William Hodges

William Hodges

William Hodges was the artist on Cook's second voyage to New Zealand. Cook's book, A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World, published in 1777, is illustrated with sixty-three plates and charts, including a great number of pictures of New Zealand by Hodges.

147            POE-BIRD, NEW ZEALAND (TUI)

148            A MAN OF NEW ZEALAND

(Illustrations from 'A Voyage towards the South Pole,' 1777)

149            THE 'ENDEAVOUR' IN A STORM (Engraving from a painting by Hodges)

Lent by the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington