It can be found in the Captain Cook Birthplace Mueum in Middlesborough.One of a number of items produced to commemorate British explorer Captain James Cook following his death in the Hawaiian Islands on 14 February 1779. News of his death only reached London nearly a year later in January 1780. Josiah Wedgwood had first produced a medallion of Cook in 1777 based on a portrait by the artist William Hodges. In 1784 Wedgwood commissioned John Flaxman to design this new medallion.
Wedgwood medallion
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