Giclée print - First Map ‘Endeavour Leaves Dover’

Limited Edition signed Giclée print by David Elliot - only 200 in total.

Shows the Endeavour from the book First Map: How James Cook Chartered Aotearoa New Zealand, written by Tessa Duder and illustrated by David Elliot.

This is one of six beautiful illustrations from the book now available as high-quality, limited edition Giclée prints.

• Paper size: 295 mm x 415 mm; 11.6 inches x 16.6 inches
• Signed: Yes
• Framed: No

This image appears on page 17 of First Map:

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.

 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.