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Portrait of Omai, Joseph Banks and Dr Solander by William Parry."; hText="We have many original paintings – by Thomas Gainsborough, William Hodges (artist on Resolution) and others.
The painting of Omai, an early Whitby visitor, is shared with our partners in London and Cardiff."; break;
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George (or Georg as he is often called) accompanied his father, Johann Reinhold Forster, on Cook's Second Voyage. He was an excellent naturalist, talented artist, and a perceptive observer. He also seems to have been much more popular both with the crew and with Cook than his father, the difficult but immensely learned scientist officially appointed to the Voyage.";
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George (1754-1794) was the oldest of Johann Reinhold's seven surviving children, and was born near Gdansk in modern Poland. From the age of eleven, he accompanied his father on his travels, and came to England in 1766. He was only nineteen when he sailed with Cook on the Second Voyage.
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hText+="William Hodges (1744-1797) was the official artist on Cook’s Second Voyage. His scenes of Pacific islands and peoples, with dramatic contrasts of light and colour, remain key images of this remarkable period of exploration. This is a small sketch made by Hodges during one of the two sweeps towards the South Pole 1772-73. It depicts the Resolution in a choppy sea under overcast skies with streams of pack ice floating past.
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hText+="The Voyage marked the first crossing of the Antarctic Circle. The ship came nearly within sight of the Continent itself, further south than anyone had sailed before. The sketch is testimony to European efforts to find an unknown southern continent, to the dangers of voyaging among the ice floes and the hardships endured by the crew in freezing conditions.
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hText+="J.R. Forster complained his bedding was always damp from a leaking hatch, and the goat brought down from the deck to the next door cabin bleated piteously all night. Cook wrote at the most southern point – 'I whose ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go'.
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The 2008 exhibition is Smoking Coasts and ice-bound Seas: Cook's Voyage to the Arctic'. For more information, click Special Exhibition."; break;
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