Elizabeth Cook b. 1741

  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
Embroiderer. Elizabeth Cook is best known to history as the wife of the renowned navigator-explorer Captain James Cook. Despite never joining her husband on his journeys, her embroidered work includes depictions of Captain Cook's voyages to Australia and the Pacific.

Citations

  • (1994), Sydney Morning Herald, 10-18.

  • Sinclair, Shirley (1995), 'Elizabeth Cook, The Captain’s Wife 1741-1835’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Information sourced from Sinclair, Shirley.

See also

  • 'Heritage, Section 4, plate 142'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book