Anse au Sable, l'Anse à Cormorandière / Kennington Cove Silver gelatin photo-composite Image dimension: 21-15/16 x 10-1/8 inches (555 x 260 mm) Frame dimension: 29-13/16 x 18-3/8 inches (760 x 465 mm) Edition of three (3). Signed & numbered 1/3. Printed: March 2008 Cost: C$350. Framed / ready to hang "The day after the surrender, the master of the Pembroke was ashore at Kennington Cove, where Wolfe had made his landing seven weeks before. His curiosity was much aroused by the behaviour of a man carrying a small square table, supported by a tripod; the man would set his table down so that he could squint along the top in various directions, after which he would make notes in a pocket-book. This was a military engineer and surveyor in a regiment under Wolfe; he was making a plan of the place and its encampments, and the instrument he was using was known as a plane table; with it he was observing angles. His name was Samuel Holland. ... Neither he nor Cook knew that their encounter that day was not less important than the great event they had just witnessed; for Cook expressed an ardent desire to be instructed in the use of the instrument, and, says Holland, "I appointed the next day in order to make him acquainted with the whole process." --J.C. Beaglehole, The Life of Captain James Cook PREV | MAIN | NEXT