Aquatint of Kamehameha II

$1,300.00

Published in London, 1824

Height 16" Width 19" including archival frame

Provenance: John Dominis Holt, Honolulu, HI

A powerful and sad image as the King and Queen soon after this event died from measles and the bodies returned back to Hawaii on the HMS Blonde.

King George IV’s Royal Box at the Theater Royal on Drury Lane on June 4, 1824. Seated, left to right, are King Kamehameha II, Queen Kamamalu, and Liliha and standing, left to right, two unknown Hawaiians, Boki, and Frederick C. Byng.

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