HM Bark ENDEAVOUR. Botany Bay "Welcome"
Artist
Geoffrey Chapman Ingleton
(Australian, 1908 - 1998)
Date1937
Object number00004352
NameEtching
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsOverall: 247 x 304 mm, 0.45 kg
ClassificationsArt
Credit LineANMM Collection
DescriptionThis black and white etching depicts HMB ENDEAVOUR landing at Botany Bay, with local Aborigines shown on shore. It is print No. 26 in a series of 50 by Geoffrey Ingleton. Ingleton produced many historical maritime etchings depicting significant ships and events in Australia’s past. ENDEAVOUR's arrival at Botany Bay was the first landing of a British ship in Australia and later prompted the British Admiralty to send the First Fleet in 1778.HistoryCommander Lieutenant Geoffrey Ingleton (1908-1998) was an historian, book collector, artist, modelmaker, publisher, printmaker and illustrator. Born at Bairnsdale, Victoria on 14 May 1908 he joined the Royal Australian Naval College at Jervis Bay, NSW in 1922. His naval training took him to Britain and when Ingleton returned in 1930 he was commissioned a Lieutenant. Leaving the Navy in 1936 he went on to establish a successful career as a draftsman, artist and etcher. Ingleton gained fame for his works depicting maritime scenes, ships and event in Australia's past, including a series of works focused on Sydney.
Captain James Cook anchored HMB ENDEAVOUR in Botany Bay on 29 April 1770. The favourable report Cook and Joseph Banks compiled on the bay influenced planning for the first European settlement in Australia. Arthur Phillip anchored his ships of the First Fleet there on 18 January 1788.
Since this event HMB ENDEAVOUR has come to have a unique association with Australia. Originally called the EARL OF PEMBROKE and renamed ENDEAVOUR, the ship was built in 1764 at Whitby, North Yorkshire for the coal trade. Purchased by the British Admiralty in 1768, it was fitted out for the Admiralty’s expedition to the South Pacific to view the Transit of Venus and locate the Great South Land. The expedition set out in 1769 under the command of Lieutenant James Cook. After completing its mission to observe the Transit of Venus at Tahiti, Cook continued west across the Pacific to New Zealand. There he surveyed the coast of both islands before continuing west to Australia (New Holland). In Australia he sailed and mapped the east coast finally resolving the shape of the eastern edge of the continent. Arriving back in England in 1771, ENDEAVOUR was refitted and used as a store ship for naval trips to the Falkland Islands. In 1775, it was discharged from the Admiralty, sold and renamed LORD SANDWICH. It is believed the ship was sunk with nine other vessels by the British in 1778 at the entrance to Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, USA during an attempt to blockade French ships.SignificanceThis etching represents the exploration of Australia's east coast by Captain James Cook in command of HMB ENDEAVOUR in 1770. It is a fine example of the work by respected printmaker and etcher Geoffrey Ingleton.
