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.
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  • Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, NSW
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW

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References [<ExternalResource: (1994), Sydney Morning Herald, 10-18.>, <ExternalResource: Sinclair, Shirley (1995), 'Elizabeth Cook, The Captain's Wife 1741-1835', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Sinclair, Shirley.>]