John Webber (After) John Sherwin (Engraver)
A Dance in Otaheite

Artwork Detail
The dancers are captured mid-movement; the hands of the drummers behind hover above their instruments giving a sense of immediacy. Cook and his crew are not included in the scene presumably sitting as audience from the view point we, as viewers, see the dance.
- Title
- A Dance in Otaheite
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- 1784
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- 402 x 560 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2006
- Accession no
- 2006/3/10
- Copyright
- No known copyright restrictions
- Department
- International Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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