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Date: 1827 - 1970 - 1980

By: Earle, Augustus, 1793-1838; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: C-123-025

Description: Shows Earle seated near Hongi and his attendants, on a beach. Poster produced for sale at Bay of Islands Maritime & Historic Park, Russell. Verso has map of Bay of Islands, historical information and outline of historic reserves. Other Titles - Yours to enjoy - Bay of Islands Maritime & Historic Park Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Yours to enjoy -Bay of Islands Maritime & Historic Park / Department of Lands & Survey / Bay of Islands Maritime & Historic Park / Russell, Bay of Islands, New Zealand Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, image 346 x 551 mm on sheet 472 x 675 mm.

Date: 1930 - 1820 - 1939

From: Goodwin, Arnold Frederick, 1890-1978 :[Historical incidents in New Zealand in 1820]. By courtesy John Walker & Sons, Ltd., Distillers, Kilmarnock [Edinburgh? 1930s]

Reference: A-236-006-a

Description: Half-length portrait of Hongi Hika, shown with full facial moko, in a flax cloak, holding a musket. Behind him is a sailing ship, probably in the Bay of Islands, where Hongi came from. Hongi's iwi, Ngapuhi, was a large northern tribe, not a small one. Other Titles - Hongi Hika Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 211 x 157 mm Provenance: Donated by Mr B N Lindsay of Wellington, in 1984. Transfers: Transfer from MSS&A 84-145, Macdonald family papers, in 2003..

Date: 1827 - 1838

By: Earle, Augustus, 1793-1838; Beutel, Colin, active 1997

Reference: B-110-059

Description: The artist and his friend, Mr Shand, seated in a rocky inlet, surrounded by bush, in coversation with Hongi Hika and a group of family and other attendants. Two canoes are drawn up on the beach to the left and other Maori are visible in the distance. A carved figure leans from a rock behind and above Hongi. There are rifles and cartridge cases on the ground and one man is holding a taiaha. The scene is on a beach close to Russell (Kororareka) and took place in November 1827. Based on an oil in the Library's collection: Meeting of the artist with the wounded chief Hongi, by Augustus Earle (G-707) Other Titles - Hongi Hika Extended Title - From Earle, Augustus. Sketches illustrative of the native inhabitants ... of New Zealand. London, 1838. Plate 2. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 239 x 379 mm

Date: 1930 - 1820 - 1939

From: Goodwin, Arnold Frederick 1890-1978 :[Historical incidents in New Zealand in 1820. Edinburgh? ca 1930]

By: Goodwin, Arnold Frederick, 1890-1978

Reference: A-236-006

Description: Half-length portrait of Hongi Hika, shown with full facial moko, in a flax cloak, holding a musket. Behind him is a sailing ship, probably in the Bay of Islands, where Hongi came from. Picture supplied by courtesy John Walker & Sons, Ltd., Distillers, Kilmarnock. Hongi's iwi, Ngapuhi, was a large northern tribe, not a small one. Other Titles - Hongi Hika Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 211 x 157 mm

Date: 1827

By: Earle, Augustus, 1793-1838; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: G-707

Description: Shows canoes, storehouse and carved objects. Hongi is seated in a central position, with huia feathers in his hair. Earle, seated on the left, is gesturing and is wearing a green cap. Another European is seated behind Earle, his friend Shand. Hongi's family and supporters surround him and the group is seated at the base of a low cliff. The meeting took place in a bay about 1 mile from Kororareka (Russell). Hongi had fought without his armour, supplied by King George IV, and had been wounded by a ball in the chest. He was to die the following year. Identification: the exact identity of Mr Shand is not known. Earle described him as a Scotsman. Exhibited in 'Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art' Exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February - 22 April 1990. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. Exhibited in 'The Dream Collectors' Exhibition at Te Papa / Museum of New Zealand, 14 February 1998 -; then touring to Auckland City Art Gallery and Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Also known by title: The wounded chief, Hongi (or Honghi). Other Titles - Meeting of the artist and the wounded chief, Hongi Other Titles - The wounded chief Honghi Inscriptions: Recto - on the back neck area of the cloak of the foremost reclining figure: A.E. Related works: a lithograph version of this view, 'The wounded chief Honghi and his family' was published as plate 2 in Earle's 'Sketches illustrative of the native inhabitants and islands of New Zealand ... (London, New Zealand Association and Robert Martin, 1838). The lithograph contains fewer figures and details than the oil Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 578 x 898 mm (sight) Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1824

From: Duperrey, Louis Isidore, 1786-1865 :Voyage autour du monde ... (Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1826). Atlas. Zoologie.

By: Bevalet, Antoine Germain, 1779-1850?; Coutant, Jean Louis Denis, 1776-

Reference: PUBL-0116-mol-07

Description: Snails and their shells, with a large Madagascan specimen at the top of the page, A Chilean snail crawling along a branch in the centre, small shells from Tahiti and Papua New Guinea and front and back views of the larger flax snail of New Zealand at the bottom of the page. Lesson, the botanist aboard the Coquille, named it Bulimus Shongii after Ngapuhi chief Hongi Other Titles - Flax snail, bulimus Hongii, New Zealand Extended Title - From: Duperrey, L. I. Voyage autour du monde ...(Paris, 1826). Atlas. Zoologie. Mollusques. Plate 7 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 315 x 495 mm

Date: 1827 - 1838

From: Earle, Augustus 1793-1838 :Sketches illustrative of the Native Inhabitants and Islands of New Zealand from original drawings by Augustus Earle Esq, Draughtsman of H. M. S. "Beagle". London, Lithographed and Published under the auspices of the New Zealand Association by Robert Martin & Co, 1838

Reference: PUBL-0015-02

Description: The artist and his friend, Mr Shand, seated in a rocky inlet, surrounded by bush, in coversation with Hongi Hika and a group of family and other attendants. Two canoes are drawn up on the beach to the left and other Maori are visible in the distance. A carved figure leans from a rock behind and above Hongi. There are rifles and cartridge cases on the ground and one man is holding a taiaha. The scene is on a beach close to Russell (Kororareka) and took place in November 1827. Other Titles - Hongi Hika Based on an oil in the Library's collection: Meeting of the artist with the wounded chief Hongi, by Augustus Earle (G-707) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 239 x 379 mm