HMS Discovery Approaching Maui — George Vancouver's Expedition
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HMS Discovery Approaching Maui depicts Captain George Vancouver's exploration vessel encountering the Hawaiian Islands on 10 March 1793, continuing the progress of Pacific discovery that Cook had pioneered.
The Discovery, named after Cook's ship, was the lead vessel of Vancouver's four-year expedition to survey the Pacific Northwest coast of North America. Vancouver's mission was more focussed than Cook's wide-ranging missions, and was intended to create detailed, accurate charts of previously unmapped coastlines. This required years of painstaking work in small boats launching out from the ships.
The ship's journal records the moment of approach that's shown in the painting: "I availed myself of the prevailing favourable breeze, and bore away along the coast about two miles from the shore... its surface was very uneven but had yet a verdant and fertile appearance."
The Discovery continued to chart thousands of miles of previously unknown shore, including Puget Sound (named after one of Vancouver's officers) and the Columbia River.
This painting is signed GS lower right, and dated 25 in the lower left.
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