Art Credits

  • Detail, Abraham Ortelius, Maris pacifici, (quod vulgò Mar del Zud) cum regionibus circumiacentibus, insulisque in eodem passim sparsis, novissima description, hand-colored engraving in Theatre de l’univers, contenant les cartes de tout le monde (Antwerp, 1598), following p. 6. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, acc. no. 6009-2.

  • Detail, Virginiae Item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum, nova Descriptio, by Jodocus Hondius, Amsterdam, 1606. Courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, acc. no. 1996-813.

  • Detail, J[ohn] Webber, An offering before Capt. Cook in the Sandwich Islands, print, London, 1784. Call no. PIC PIC S1087 LOC 1318. By permission of the National Library of Australia.

  • Copperplate-printed textile fragment, cotton, plain-woven, England, c. 1785. This fragment shows scenes from Captain James Cook’s journey to Tahiti and New Zealand. Courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, acc. no. 1963-193.

  • Detail, Monuments in Easter Island, drawn by W. Hodge and engraved by W. Wollett, in James Cook, A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World: Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, l774 and l775 (London, 1777), plate 49, vol. 1, facing p. 294. Courtesy Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.

  • Hong Bowl, Qianlong/Jiaqing c. 1790–1802 (R1967.1.1 Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Reeves). Courtesy, The Reeves Center, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. This bowl depicts the thirteen “hongs” (factories) that stood alongside the Pearl River in Canton (Guangzhou) as they appeared during the period 1792–1802.

  • Detail, William Ellis, Inside of a hut at Unalaschka, on the NW. coast of America, watercolor and ink drawing, 1778. Call no. PIC PIC T216 NK53/N LOC Box B7. By permission of the National Library of Australia.