A View of Cape Stephens in Cook's Straits with Waterspout

A View of Cape Stephens in Cook's Straits with Waterspout
Artist	William Hodges
Year	1776
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions	135.9 cm × 193 cm (53.5 in × 76 in)
Location	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

A View of Cape Stephens in Cook's Straits with Waterspout is an oil painting by the British artist William Hodges, from 1776.^[1][2] A seascape, it depicts a view of James Cook's ship HMS Resolution encountering stormy weather and a waterspout off a rocky coast in the Cook Strait of New Zealand.^[3]

Hodges accompanied the Second voyage of James Cook for a commission to record the trip for the British Admiralty. A major goal of the expedition was to try and locate the theoretical large Southern Continent that was though to exist. On how return to Britain Hodges worked up many of his drawings and sketches into oil paintings Which wee displayed at the Royal Academy' Summer Exhibitions at Somerset House. Today the painting is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.^[4]

• McAleer, John & Rigby, Nigel. Captain Cook and the Pacific: Art, Exploration & Empire. Yale University Press, 2017.
• Taylor, James. Picturing the Pacific: Joseph Banks and the Shipboard Artists of Cook and Flinders. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

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