1774 Hawkesworth Antique Print Capt Wallis attacked in Matavia Bay, Tahiti, 1767 North Amercia Cardinal Alessandrino and his hiers

1774 Hawkesworth Antique Print Capt Wallis attacked in Matavia Bay, Tahiti, 1767 North Amercia Cardinal Alessandrino and his hiers Cardinal Alessandrino and his hiers in the 17th century and then a British colony This fine original copper plate engraved antique print of Captain Samuel Wallis in his ship the HMS Dolphin being attacked by the Tahitians in Matavai Bay with one tree hill to the right in 1767 was engraved by Robert Benard and was published in the 1774 French edition of John Hawkesworths An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron making signs of friendship