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[Heaphy, Charles] 1820-1881 :View of the "Tory Channel", Queen Charlotte's Sound. [14 O...

Date: 1839

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

Reference: C-025-006

Description: Shows settlement, ships, Maori canoes, and a whale (?) derrick. Also shows part of Barrett's whaling settlement at Te Awaiti, ("Barrett's Bay"), anchorage of the "Honduras" and first anchorage of the "Tory", Oakurri Bay. Looks across Cook Strait and shows the North Island in the distance, as seen through the entrance of Tory Channel, looking towards Cape Terawhiti, Wellington Heads, and Cape Palliser (all identified). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch on paper, 177 x 533 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, purchased London, 1915, from Francis Edwards, as part of the New Zealand Company collection.

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[Heaphy, Charles] 1820-1881 :The "Cuba" at anchor, in a N.W. breeze, at Port Nicholson ...

Date: 1839 - 1840

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-144-003

Description: View across the harbour entrance towards the hills including Palmer Head, with the Cuba in rough water cf Auckland Institute & Museum sketch PS 1 (8) 41, dated July 1839, with similar title: "Cuba" return from Chatham Island. Hurricane off Port Nicholson July 39'. The date should correctly be 1840 Dating: work was originally dated by the Library as 1839. However Heaphy returned from the Chatham Islands in July 1840. Other Titles - Cuba on her return from the Chatham Islands ...ing the anchor in a gale off Port Nicholson Inscriptions: Title in ink in a later hand below image; alternative title in pencil, barely legible, upper left corner, in Heaphy's hand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, watercolour & Chinese white on brown paper, 230 x 330 mm

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