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Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771 :View of an arched rock on the coast of New Zealand with a...
Date: 1769 - 1784
From: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771 :A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's ship, 'The Endeavour'. Faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Parkinson. London; Printed for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, and James Phillips, in the George-Yard, 1784.
By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Newton, J, active 1784; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771
Reference: PUBL-0037-24
Description: The arched rock at Mercury Bay, with a small canoe with a sail beneath it and the Endeavour at anchor to the right beyond the rock. The palisades and some buildings of the pa (Te Puta o te Paretauhinu) on top of the rock, with a figure to the right waving a cloth. Canoes pulled up on the lower reaches of the rock. The rock has subsequently collapsed. Parkinson was the artist on Captain Cook's voyage to New Zealand in 1769. Other Titles - Pa Based on a wash drawing now in the British Library by Herman Diedrich Sporing, presumably copied by Parkinson. John Hawkesworth's version (in his Voyages..., London, 1773) of this view reverses the rock, adds a kangaroo and a war canoe. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 225 x 270 mm