Women, Tahitian

Date: 1937

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]

Reference: A-424-025

Description: Shows a head and shoulders portrait of a woman with her hair drawn back into a loose knot, and a plait over the top of her head. Photographed in E-918-q, 340/192b. Copies at 142/192 and 143/192a. Listed in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 154 x 103 mm.

Date: 1776 - 1782 - 1779 - 1792

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Hogg and Company

Reference: A-111-038

Description: Two Raiatean women and two men dancing in a courtyard in front of a building. Musicians are performing on various drums, and with hand-clapping behind them. They are watched on both sides by a crowd of Tahitians, with a few European sailors amongst them. The two male dancers are squatting, while the two women are standing, wearing fanned out tapa skirts, coconut shells over their breasts and hats. Published in Anderson, G. W. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages. [London, Another edition, ca 1791 or 2]. In the 1st edition this plate is engraved by Hawkins. Derived from an engraving by Sherwin after Webber on Cook's 3rd voyage in Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London, 1784, Pl 28. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 217 x 346 mm on sheet 226 x 356 mm Provenance: Unknown

Date: 1777 - 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Sherwin, John Keyse, 1751-1790

Reference: C-131-029-c

Description: A girl dancing in a long gown with highly puckered ruffs of tapa attached to the back of the waist and feathery pompons covering the breats. Several long tassels are hanging from her waist, and on her head is wearing a headdress of plaited hair ormanented with blossoms of Cape jasmine. A mat of rushes has been laid to dance upon. In the background is vegatation and a thatched building. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 29 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 277 x 227 mm

Date: 1777 - 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815

Reference: C-131-027-c

Description: A girl wearing a `dress' consisting of a prodigous quantity of tapa cloth bound about her waist. This, and the two feather gorgets, or breast plates, fastened to the `hoop' of her skirt were intended as presents to Captain Cook. She is wearing flowers in her hair and has her right breast uncovered. Palm trees and other vegetation can be seen in the background. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 27 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 225 x 180 mm

Date: 1946 - 1890

By: Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903

Reference: A-057-002

Description: Two leaves of coloured illustrations to accompany an article from Life magazine, international edition, Sept 16 1945, Vol. 1 no. 5, p. 32. Includes five paintings of Tahitian women, two of landscapes in Brittany and a portrait of a cellist, Schneklud, painted in 1894, after Gauguin had returned to Europe Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithographs on glossy paper, folded to 354 x 262 mm Provenance: Unknown

Date: 1778 - 1800

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Noble, George, active 1795-1806; Hogg and Company

Reference: A-111-058

Description: Two portraits of Tahitian woman from James Cook's third voyage to Tahiti in 1779. The left view has a background of coconut palms and the woman is wearing a very full skirt; the right view includes a dwelling, a banana palm and other bush and the woman is dancing and wearing a hat and a long draped garment with full ruffles at the back Derived from engravings after Webber on Cook's 3rd voyage in" Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London, 1784. Vol 2 pl 27 & 28. Extended Title - From: Anderson, G. W. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages round the world. [Another edition] Pl 106. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on laid paper 222 x 331 mm (image) 230 x 350 mm (plate mark) on sheet 235 x 382 mm

Date: 1777 - 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815

Reference: C-131-027

Description: A girl wearing a `dress' consisting of a prodigous quantity of tapa cloth bound about her waist. This, and the two feather gorgets, or breast plates, fastened to the `hoop' of her skirt were intended as presents to Captain Cook. She is wearing flowers in her hair and has her right breast uncovered. Palm trees and other vegetation can be seen in the background. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 27 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 225 x 180 mm

Date: 1777 - 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Sherwin, John Keyse, 1751-1790

Reference: C-131-029-b

Description: A girl dancing in a long gown with highly puckered ruffs of tapa attached to the back of the waist and feathery pompons covering the breats. Several long tassels are hanging from her waist, and on her head is wearing a headdress of plaited hair ormanented with blossoms of Cape jasmine. A mat of rushes has been laid to dance upon. In the background is vegatation and a thatched building. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 29 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 277 x 227 mm

Date: 1936

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]

Reference: A-424-020

Description: Shows a row of the backs of figures seated on the ground in the foreground. Some sit on mats and some have woven baskets with them. Beyond are several standing figures, in groups. Photographed in E-918-q, 328/169. Copy at E-915-q-003. Listed in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 177 x 254 mm.

Date: 1891 - 1897

By: Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903

Reference: A-057-003/010

Description: Eight reproductions and accompanying text sheet from a set of ten reproductions. They include (A-057-003) Vahine no te tiare [1891], a Tahitian woman in a dark European dress; (A-057-004) Nafea faa ipoipo [When are you getting married?] 1892, two young Tahitian women seated; (A-057-005) Ta matete [The market. 1892] a Tahitian market with seated people painted in ancient Egyptian style; The artist's mother [1893], a head and shoulders frontal portrait; (A-057-007) Otahi [Loneliness. 1893], a young Tahitian woman squatting flat, her chin in her hands; (A-057-008) Annah the Javanese [1893], a naked young woman seated in a chair; (A-057-009) Nave nave mohana [Sun magic] 1896, six Tahitian women, a man and a child in a landscape; (A-057-010) Nevermore, 1897 showing a naked Tahitian woman lying on a bed. The text sheet includes an introduction to Gauguin's work, descriptions of each reproduction and a biography. Quantity: 8 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithographs mounted on card, 380 x 278 mm Provenance: Unknown

Date: 1777 - 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Sherwin, John Keyse, 1751-1790

Reference: C-131-029-a

Description: A girl dancing in a long gown with highly puckered ruffs of tapa attached to the back of the waist and feathery pompons covering the breats. Several long tassels are hanging from her waist, and on her head is wearing a headdress of plaited hair ormanented with blossoms of Cape jasmine. A mat of rushes has been laid to dance upon. In the background is vegatation and a thatched building. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 29 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 277 x 227 mm

Date: 1779

From: [Various artists] :[Costume plates of Oceania] Torino [Turin] ; Fontana, 1844

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: A-119-028

Description: Standing portrait of a young Tahitian woman, dancing. She is wearing a full skirt with ruffled sections at the waist, and tassles suspended from the waist and a flat-topped hat Wahlen's book is a translation of his "Moeurs, usages et coutumes de tous les peuples du monde..." Bruxelles, 1843-44. Vol. 4. Extended Title - From: Wahlen, A. Usi e costumi sociali, politici, et religiosi... Vol. 2 Oceania. Torino, 1844-1847. After John Webber's engraving made to illustrate Captain Cook's third voyage, A dance in Otaheite, published 1784. Webber was in Tahiti in 1779 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, handcoloured, on sheet 270 x 175 mm.

Date: 1855

From: Pottier, H J A fl 1855 :Souvenirs de Taiti. [Album. 1854-56].

By: Pottier, H J A, active 1855; Sergent, (Monsieur), active 1900s?

Reference: E-548-013-1

Description: Shows interior of hut, with four Tahitians kneeling around a large bowl, three demonstrating by pointing to their mouths as naked child offers small bowl to the fourth man. A [French?] sailor holds the hand of a Tahitian woman who offers him a bowl. Other Titles - Inside a hut / interior of a house, 19 September 1855 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - H. Pottier / le 19 septembre / 1855[?] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink on paper 100 x 148 mm, stuck to page 273 x 215 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Hordern House Rare Books Pty Ltd., in 1996.

Date: 1965

By: Tasman Empire Airways Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-AVIATION-TEAL-1965-01

Description: A stylised illustration of a Tahitian woman standing in water, with a flower in her hair. The title text has been added at top left. Image is probably based on a photograph by Life photographer Eliot Elisofon in 1954, of a woman fixing her hair in a river in French Polynesia. This image was also used on a poster by Air New Zealand (See Art + Object auction catalogue for 25 October 2012, lot 285, illustrated page 20). As TEAL became Air New Zealand in 1965, it is likely that the poster is dated at around that year Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print, 970 x 625 mm.

Date: 1937

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]

Reference: A-424-026

Description: Shows a head and shoulders portrait of a woman with her hair drawn back into a loose knot, and a plait over the top of her head. Photographed in E-918-q, 352/192c. Copies at 340/192b, 142/192 and 143/192a. Listed in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 154 x 103 mm, on sheet 180 x 123 mm.

Date: 1778 - 1780

By: Rooker, Edward, 1712?-1774

Reference: B-195-013

Description: A scene showing single- and double-hulled canoes on the water, fishing. The canoe in the foreground has two men rowing, a boy with a net and a dog sitting high at the stern of the boat, and two other men towards the front, one standing. There is a rooster perched on the outrigger. In front of the canoe, a lone man paddles a raft, with a small cargo of what could be coconuts. To the right of him, two fishing birds can be seen on a rock; one is taking flight. To the left of the scene, on the shore, a family fish for their food, using rod and line Possibly after William Hodges, 1744-1797, from Cook's second voyage 'A fishing scene observed by Lieutenant James Cook and the crew of the Endeavour, Tahiti, 1769. Illustration from An account of the voyages ...for makng discoveries in the southern hemisphere, by John Hawkesworth (London, 1773)'. (Information from the Royal Society website http://prints.royalsociety.org/art/579969/Fishing_scene_Tahiti) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on laid paper, 240 x 430 mm (plate mark) Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, The Barry Cash photographic collection and private vendors auction, 16 October, 2014; lot P434

Date: 1778 - 1780

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Rooker, Edward, 1712?-1774

Reference: B-195-012

Description: Shows a scene on the waterfront at Raiatea in the Society Islands, with canoes on the right. In the centre foreground a group of men and women talk around a large basket of fish. There is a curve-roofed shelter at the far left, housing a double-hulled canoe. A female figure walks in from the left bearing a laden pole over her left shoulder. There is a coconut palm at the far left, and high jagged hills in the distance See also A-211-042 for a similar version of the scene Other Titles - Oopoa, Raiatea Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on laid paper, 240 x 490 mm (plate mark) Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, The Barry Cash photographic collection and private vendors auction, 16 October, 2014; lot P434

Date: 1845

From: Baxter, George, 1804-1867 :Pomare, Queen of Tahiti. George Pritchard. London, Designed, printed in oil & published by G. Baxter, patentee [1845]

By: Baxter, George, 1804-1867

Reference: E-006-f-002

Description: Shows Queen Pomare, her husband, a servant or friend and three small children, seated by an open window, with a beach visible outside, with French soldiers and ships and canoes in the harbour. A proclamation signed A. DuPetit-Thouars is on a chair in the left foreground and a bible lies on the window-ledge Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) bound with one other. Physical Description: Coloured Baxter print 268 x 227 mm on mount 372 x 287 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull

Date: 1777 - 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815

Reference: C-131-027-a

Description: A girl wearing a `dress' consisting of a prodigous quantity of tapa cloth bound about her waist. This, and the two feather gorgets, or breast plates, fastened to the `hoop' of her skirt were intended as presents to Captain Cook. She is wearing flowers in her hair and has her right breast uncovered. Palm trees and other vegetation can be seen in the background. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 27 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 225 x 180 mm

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851

Reference: C-082-028

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of two Tahitian women, members of the royal family, Pomare and Teremoemoe or Tera Redrawn by Chazal from original by Lejeune, & engraved by Tardieu for publication as plate in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, Arthur Bertrand, 1826) (fr910.4). Vahine is the Tahitian word for woman, or female Other Titles - Society Islands. Tahiti. Pomare, female, aunt of the King, aged 35 years. Teremoemoe or Tera female, wife of the last King, Queen Mother aged 25 years [translation] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - A Chazal; Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 130 x 200 mm on sheet 510 x 360 mm