Giclée prints - 5 Endeavour Ship designs

Limited edition, high quality Giclée prints of Cook's ship, the Endeavour

Each giclée shows the Endeavour from First Map: How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand, written by Tessa Duder and illustrated by David Elliot.

A giclée (zhee-KLAY) is a superb-quality copy of an artwork or photograph. It is made using high-end 8-to-12 colour inkjet printing techniques coupled with the use of pigment inks, archival inks which maintain image stability and colour permanence better than all other known inks.

• Paper size: 295 mm x 415 mm
• Framed: No

HM Bark Endeavour appears on pages 14-15: Double-page spread shows the Endeavour specifications and general information, including ship class and type, tonnage, draught, sails, speed, etc.

Endeavour leaves Dover appears on page 17: On 8 August 1768 Endeavour sailed down the English Channel in a fresh north-westerly, passing the legendary white cliffs of Dover and Beachy Head before anchoring n Plymouth to embark botanists Joseph Banks and Dr Daniel Solander.

Endeavour with waka appears on pages 40-41: As Endeavour anchored in bays of the North Island's eastern coasts, Cook and his crew became familiar with canoes putting out from the shore to encircle the ship, sometimes more than forty at a time.

Endeavour off North Cape appears on pages 66-67: Off North Cape, Endeavour struck atrocious weather that lasted for nearly three weeks. Even under reduced sail, the ship was driven some fifty miles north-east of land, then over 100 miles out to the south-west. [After a sketch by Sydney Parkinson, 'The Endeavour in stormy seas' 1769.]

Endeavour off Cape Saunders appears on pages 82-83: In late February 'a proper Storm' with enormous swells forced the Endeavour far away from the coast, by 2 March to about 150 miles south-east of Cape Saunders [near today's Dunedin] and to a latitude of 48 degrees, actually south of Stewart Island.