Potatow, John Hall, engraver, 1777, London, engraving, George Forster, one of the scientists on Cook’s second voyage to the Pacific, wrote that the Tahitian chief Patatau was ‘one of the tallest men we had seen upon the island, and his features were so mild, comely, and at the same time majestic, that Mr. Hodges immediately applied himself to copy from them, as from the noblest models of nature

Potatow, John Hall, engraver, 1777, London, engraving, George Forster, one of the scientists on Cook’s second voyage to the Pacific, wrote that the Tahitian chief Patatau was ‘one of the tallest men we had seen upon the island, and his features were so mild, comely, and at the same time majestic, that Mr. Hodges immediately applied himself to copy from them, as from the noblest models of nature Stock Photo
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