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Date: 1839 - 1851

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870; Bett, Francis Arnot Blackader, 1873-1957

Reference: A-189-023

Description: The Tory in full sail, sailing through Tory Channel, with a Maori canoe with two sails behind it, a smaller canoe with masts in front. Seabirds on rocks in the foreground, a flax bush and manuka on a headland to the right and a rocky island in the middle distance with the hills of Queen Charlotte Sound in the background A copy of Charles Heaphy's ink sketch 'Tory Channel, Queen Charlotte's Sound, 1839' in the Fildes Collection, Victoria University of Wellington, measuring 182 x 269 mm (irregular edge 270 mm across the top) Other Titles - Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in pencil; also bottom right, C. Heaphy [enclosed in a cartouche] and below that G. F. Swainson March 1851. [i.e. copy of a Heaphy drawing by Swainson] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Crayon and watercolour, 242 x 300 mm

Date: 1839 - 1840

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: C-025-024

Description: Shows a still dark green river with a virgin kauri forest, low scrub and flax on its far bank. In the centre of the view is a row-boat, with Colonel William Wakefield in top hat seated in the stern, trailing an oar. The other occupants of the boat are a Maori named Te Whare, a Rotuman named Saturday, Dr George Robinson, Dr John Dorset and Charles Heaphy. Heaphy is thought to be the fourth from the right, the young man with brown hair and a moustache. There are several ducks on the river to the left. The scene is almost certainly the upper Wairoa River, as described by Colonel William Wakefield ' Higher up, where the river narrows to the breadth of the Thames at Kew, both sides presented magnificent forest - some entirely of kauri in a state of the greatest profusion' (quoted in The unknown Kaipara by Brian Byrne, p. 166). Shows an incident that occurred after the grounding of the Tory on 19 December 1839. Painted after the event and dated 1840. See Wakefield, E. J. Adventure in New Zealand, vol. 1 p. 156ff. The boat was being rowed from Te Kopuru up the Wairoa River. Other Titles - Kauri forest Colonel Wakefield Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signature and date; Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 287 x 457 mm on sheet 347 x 485 mm Provenance: Commissioned and owned by the New Zealand Company, London, until purchase in 1915 by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull per dealer Francis Edwards.

Date: 1839

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-167-2

Description: Shows five figures seated on the ground under a woven framed shelter. There is a campfire at the right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and wash, 80 x 160 mm.