Places

Date: 1769 - 1833 - 1900 - 1784

By: Owens Group (Firm); Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Barnes, Frank, 1859-1941; Underwood, Frank, active 1899-1915; Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Saint-Aulaire, Felix Achille, 1801-; Crawshaw, Lionel Townsend, 1864-1949

Reference: A-244-142/147-a

Description: Contents: A war canoe of New Zealand, 1773 [sic] / Sydney Parkinson. - S.S. Hinemoa (ca. 1900) / Frank Barnes. - The Constance Craig, Auckland (ca 1900) / Frank Underwood. - The Astrolabe striking a reef in the Bay of Plenty [i.e. La corvette l'Astrolabe tombant tout a coup sur des recifs dans la Baie de l'Abondance], 1833 / Louis A de. Sainson; engraved by F.A. de B. Saint Aulaire. - The Astrolabe in French Pass [ i.e. L'Astrolabe dans la passe des Francais...], 1833 / Louis de Sainson; engraved by F.A. de B. Saint Aulaire. - The Endeavour leaving Whitby for the Thames, 1768 (ca 1930) / Lionel Townsend Crawshaw. Accompanied by looseleaf descriptive commentary; filed with A 244-142/142-a. Set of looseleaf offprints also published as Owens Group calendar, 1981. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - Reproduced by Courtesy of The Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.; Recto - bottom right - [Artist's name] Quantity: 12 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 12 colour photolithographs (2 sets of 6), 203 x 280 mm, on sheets 244 x 313 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright.

Date: [1985-1994]

By: Ollivier, Isabel, 1949-2020

Reference: MS-Group-0078

Description: Translations and transcripts of manuscripts on French explorers in New Zealand including Adolphe-Pierre Lesson's botanical notes on the voyage of the `Astrolabe', (Astrolabe Harbour, Jan-Mar 1827); Lesson's medical report on the voyage of the `Astrolabe',(Toulon 3 Apr 1829); a report (Mar 1826) and instructions for Dumont D'Urville, Captain of `La Coquille' (re-named `Astrolabe') on his voyage of exploration, with a covering letter signed by Count de Rosily of the French Admiralty; report by Dumont d'Urville (Bay of Islands 14 Mar 1827) on the voyage of the `Astrolabe' and a report by Dumont D'Urville on possible sites for a colony in New Zealand. Also a transcript of pages 389-859 of Lesson's Journal Historique, the original of which is in the Bibliotheque Municipale de Rochefort. Electronic material of these transcripts and translations accompanied this material. Source of title - supplied title Material supplied by Isabel Ollivier for `Early eyewitness acounts of Maori life'; volume five. Quantity: 57 folder(s). 8 microfilm reel(s). 5 megabyte(s) textual material. 0.60 Linear Metres.

Date: 1769 - 1810 - 1830

By: Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Castellini, G, active 1780-1800; Hill, Julian, active 1996-2009

Reference: A-054-011

Description: Aquatint based on a drawing of Te Puta o te Paretauhinau Pa at Mercury Bay, Coromandel Peninsula. The drawing of the pa is by Herman Diedrich Sporing, Sir Joseph Banks' clerk; the canoe is copied from a drawing by Sydney Parkinson, the official artist aboard the Endeavour. The scene shows a long war canoe in the left foreground; an arched rock in the water behind the boat with a pa on top of it; two canoes pulled up on the bank to the right behind the arched rock and dense bush in the background. From an unknown Italian publication. One of the engravers of this publication was Biasioli (1790-1830). The pa shown was seen in November 1769. See Joppien & Smith. The art of Captain Cook's voyages, vol 1, cat. no. 1.121 for the original drawing of the pa, and 1.142 for the original drawing of the Maori canoe. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - G Castellini inc Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Handcoloured aquatint, plate 190 x 230 mm on loose page, 240 x 340 mm. Provenance: Purchased by the vendor from a dealer in Washington DC.

Date: 1839 - 1769

From: Dumont d'Urville, Jean Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842 :Voyage pittoresque autour du monde et resume generale des descouvertes. Paris, Furne et Cie, 1839.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771

Reference: PUBL-0034-2-366

Description: A large war canoe, with many men rowing, several standing. A European vessel is in the background to the left, behind the canoe and a headland is also visible. Derived from Sydney Parkinson's engraving, from Cook's first voyage to New Zealand in 1769, of 'War canoe of New Zealand, with a view of Gable End Foreland' from An Account of the voyages ... for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere ... By John Hawkesworth. (London, 1773), vol 3, Pl. 16, opp. p. 463. Parkinson's engraving lacks the European vessel. Other Titles - War canoe of New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 117 x 200 mm

Date: 1778 - 1784 - 1827 - 1779 - 1833

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Fumagalli, Paolo, 1797-1873; Giulio Ferrario (Firm)

Reference: A-447-012

Description: A view inside a pa or kainga with a group of four Maori standing and seated in the foreground, one man leaning on a taiaha. Two further Maori are seated in conversation on the right. They are in an open flat area, surrounded by low dwellings, with part of a palisade in the background. The view is on Cook's 'Hippah Island' with Motuara Island rising behind to the north, in Queen Charlotte Sound Derived from an engraving after John Webber 'The inside of a hippah in New Zealand' published in Cook, J and J King. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean (London, 1784). The Italian aquatint version is cropped on the right, omitting a further dwelling, fencing and a canoe in the water Inscriptions: Recto - top right - [printed plate number] 69. [Bottom right beneath image, printed etcher's name] Fumagalli f[ecit]. [Bottom right of sheet, in pencil] Neuseeland Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, hand-coloured, 182 x 238 mm (platemark) on sheet 249 x 367 mm Provenance: Purchase: Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, 21 November 2011