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Artist unknown: Gezigt van een verschanst Dorp op eene doorboorde Rots gebouwd, in Nieuw-Zeeland [1769. Copied ca 1785]
- Date
- 1769 - 1780 - 1773 - 1790
- Reference
- E-329-f-006
- Description
Copy of an engraving published in John Hawkesworth (1773, II, Plate 18)) after Spoering 'A fortified town or village...' from Captain James Cook's first voyage to New Zealand in 1769. Shows a Te Puta o te Paretauhinu Pa atop a pierced rock at Mercury Bay, with two canoes in front, two further empty canoes pulled up on rocks to the right, and the Endeavour at anchor to the left. Verso shows handwritten text in Dutch (translation of this text in accompanying typescript).
There is some variation in the details between this and the engraved version.
The scene is at Mercury Bay, not Tolaga Bay
Other Titles - A view of a fortified village built on a pierced rock in New Zealand [translation]. A fortified town or village called a hippah, built on a perforated rock at Tolaga in New Zealand. Mercury Bay
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink. Also verso covered in text in Dutch describing the scene
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour and holograph in album 272 x 430 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Artist unknown :Views in the South Seas [1769-1779. Drawn 1780s?] / Artist unknown :Views in the South Seas [1769-1779. Drawn 1780s?]
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour and holograph in album 272 x 430 mm
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