'Afia-Too-Ca, A Burying Place in the Isle of Amsterdam' Painted by del natural William. Hodges. Engraved by William Byrne.

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A Burying Place in the Isle of Amsterdam (southern Indian Ocean), after William Hodges. William Byrne (1777)

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Afia-to-ca, A Burying Place in the Isle of Amsterdam (southern Indian Ocean). Print made by: William Byrne (1743-1805). After: William Hodges (1744-1797). Published by: William Strahan (1715-1785). Published by: Thomas Cadell (17421802) Plate size: 26 x 40,8 cm Condition: Edges from paper might have been cut. The edges of the page are slightly bent as can be seen in the image.

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A Burying Place in the Isle of Amsterdam (southern Indian Ocean), after William Hodges. William Byrne (1777)
Afia-to-ca, A Burying Place in the Isle of Amsterdam (southern Indian Ocean). Print made by: William Byrne (1743-1805). After: William Hodges (1744-1797). Published by: William Strahan (1715-1785). Published by: Thomas Cadell (17421802) Plate size: 26 x 40,8 cm Condition: Edges from paper might have been cut. The edges of the page are slightly bent as can be seen in the image.

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Engraver	William Byrne
Artist	William Hodges

Scene of a burial place with constructed structures in a cleared area of otherwise forested land, with two men sitting on the ground in the cleared area, and another man seen on the edge of the image carrying fruit suspended from a pole; illustration to Cook's 'Voyage to the Pacific Ocean'. Published in 1777. Inscription content: Lettered below the image with the title, and 'Drawn from Nature by W. Hodges / Engraved by W. Byrne / No. XXVII. / Published Feby. 1st 1777 by Wm. Strahan in New Street Shoe Lane & Thos. Cadell in the Strand London'. William Hodges Landscape painter and aquatinter (1744-1797); joined Captain Cook's 2nd expedition on the Resolution to South Pacific as a draughtsman 1772-75; commissioned by the Admiralty to oversee the engraving of plates after his landscapes; in India 1780-84 under patronage of Warren Hastings, publishing his watercolours as large aquatints on return to England, and a narrative of his journey; became Royal Landscape painter to the Prince of Wales; the failure of his Indian views and the loss of money in his one-man show in 1794-5 induced him to retire as artist in 1795 and he became a partner in a Devon bank, but the bank collapsed in 1797 and he went bankrupt to the tune of £4,000; as a result he committed suicide.