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Date

1642 - 1942 - 1943

By

Curnow, Elizabeth, 1911-2005; Lilburn, Douglas Gordon, 1915-2001

Reference

A-256-029

Description

Tasman's two ships, the Heemskerck and the Zeehaen, sailing close to the shore of part of Golden Bay, with a foreground of large curved waves

The foreground waves resemble the prints of Hokusai in style

Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title, date & signature in pencil

Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).

Physical Description: Wood engraving, 77 x 102 mm on sheet 150 x 170 mm

Provenance: Presented by Allen and Betty Curnow to Douglas Lilburn, composer of music to Allen Curnow's poem 'Landfall in unknown seas'. Printed by Betty Curnow from a printer's block made from her larger original ink drawing of the same scene for the frontispiece in the Review of Canterbury University College, 1943, with title: Illustrations by Bette [sic] Curnow for the Tasman tercentennial poem 'Landfall in unknown seas'. (See Betty Curnow's letter at MS Papers 2292).

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Format

1 b&w art print(s), Works of art, Wood engravings, Wood engraving, 77 x 102 mm on sheet 150 x 170 mm