[Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :[Plain of the Ruamahanga opening into Palliser Bay near Wellington] [Plate] 15. 1863

Shows three Maori men and a European hunting a boar with dogs; the Maori men are dressed in traditional clothes and have moko. Three of the party are carrying firearms, while one Maori man is spearing the boar from the back with a taiaha. The area shown as plains in Brees' original engraving is shown as a lake or broad river behind the group.

An Italian adaptation of plate IX (after a drawing by Brees made in the early 1840s) in Wakefield, E J Illustrations to Adventures in New Zealand. London 1845 (f919.31)

This version of Brees' lithograph was first published in Das Buch der Welt (Stuttgart, Hoffmann, 1842-) a long-running illustrated German encyclopaedia. This print was published as plate 15 in the issue for 1863. It appears to be from an Italian edition of Das Buch der Welt and bears the same imprint (the date and numbers below) as the original German impression. There is no visible text in Italian on the print, apart from the very faint remains of offprinting of text from the page opposite, from the volume in which this engraving was originally published

Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - 1863, lower left; 15 lower right

Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).

Physical Description: Hand coloured engraving 157 x 238 mm