Context (Other)
During the Antipodes exhibition at MAA, the folded version of the artwork, 2016.160.1-2 sat on top of the unfolded version, 2016.159.1-2 and the images on the folded section, tallied with the printed image below.

Webber's illustration is the earliest known European image of contact and shows Cook meeting a group of Aboriginal men at Adventure Bay on Bruny Island, Tasmania, in January 1777, with Cook's landing party of officers and sailors on the left and on the right, a group of about 20 Aboriginal people.
Cook's outstretched arms suggest he is about to place a medal around the neck of an Aboriginal man. While medals were among the earliest gifts given by Europeans to Aborigines and symbolise both the idealism and the reality of these pre-colonisation encounters, the Webber drawing is the only known record of Aboriginal people being presented with medals.
The scale of the drawing suggests Webber made the picture back on the ship with a large-scale history painting in mind, but the drawing is more or less the only Webber drawing of its kind that did not become an engraving in the voyage’s official published account.
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Author: Rachel Hand

Description (Physical description)
Two-part poster referencing Tom Nicholson's artwork series, 'Lines that could be scars', (2016.49- 72) which was designed to be taken away by the audience. Printed in 2 parts with part of an interview with Tom Nicholson in collaboration with Greg Lehman and on the reverse, half of a print of John Webber's drawing 'An Interview between Captain Cook and the natives in Adventure Bay, Van Dieman's Land', 1777, (pencil, pen and wash, Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth)
This is the earliest known European image of contact, and the collaboration with Greg Lehman, printed in part on the reverse is both a type of “interview” and a deliberation on Webber’s drawing and its site.
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Author: Rachel Hand