Places

Date: 1769 - 1784

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Smith, Samuel, 1745-; Hogg and Company

Reference: A-111-096

Description: An arched rock with a pa on top Derived from an engraving by Newton after Parkinson on Cook's 1st voyage in: Parkinson, S. A journal of a voyage to the South Seas. London, 1773. Pl. 24 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, 125 x 193 mm

Date: 1780 - 1789

By: Hogg and Company; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771

Reference: A-111-065

Description: An arched rock at Mercury Bay from Cook's first voyage to New Zealand Derived from engraving by Newton after Parkinson on Cook's 1st voyage in: Parkinson, S. A journal of a voyage to the South Seas. London, 1773. Pl. 24 Trimmed inside plate marks Inscriptions: Head of plate: Engraved for Moore's voyages & travels [i e Moore, J H. A new and complete collection of voyages and travels] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving b&w 135 x 177 mm

Date: 1778-1903

From: United Kingdom. Admiralty : Records relating to the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-05-5947

Description: Includes register of men serving in the Southern and Greenland Whale Fisheries protected from impressment; court of enquiry into loss of HMS Buffalo, Mercury Bay and charges against assistant Surgeon D Russell 1840-1841; papers relating Matthew Flinders and HMS Investigator, the loss of HMS Porpoise ; the voyage to Isle of France and Flindrs' imprisonment by the French, 1806; papers of Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes relating to Royal Navy activities in the East Indies 1779-1782 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1784

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-111-011-a

Description: A pierced rock in Mercury Bay (not Tolaga Bay as in the title), with a pa on top. Shows Maori in canoes Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway Same as A-111-011 Other Titles - pa Extended Title - From Anderson, G W, ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. Derived from Hawkesworth, J. voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm

Date: 1784

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771

Reference: A-111-011

Description: A pierced rock in Mercury Bay (not Tolaga Bay) with a pa on top. Shows also Maori paddling canoes Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway Same as A-111-011-a Other Titles - Pa Extended Title - From Anderson, G W, ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. Derived from Hawkesworth, J. Voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm

Date: 1769 - 1780 - 1789

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771

Reference: A-111-098

Description: The pa on an arched rock at Mercury Bay, including a kangaroo in the view. From Cook's first voyage to New Zealand in 1769 Derived from engravings after Parkinson on Cook's 1st voyage in: Parkinson, S. A journal of a voyage to the South Seas. London 1773. Pl 18 x 24 ; and from an engraving after Stubbs in: Hawkesworth, J. An account of the voyages London 1773. Pl 20: An animal ... called kanguroo Trimmed inside plate marks Ms note: London, May 1773 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving ; b&w 111 x 174 mm

Date: 1784 - 1769

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771

Reference: A-111-011-c

Description: A pierced rock in Mercury Bay (not Tolaga Bay) with a pa on top. Shows also Maori paddling canoes Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway Same as A-111-011-a Extended Title - From Anderson, G W ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. Derived from Hawkesworth, J. Voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm

Date: 1769 - 1773

By: Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Strahan & Company

Reference: B-085-010

Description: Engraving from the official account of Cook's first voyage, based on a drawing of Te Puta o te Paretauhinau Pa at Mercury Bay, Coromandel Peninsula (not Tolaga Bay as claimed in the title). 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 boat from the Endeavour being rowed in the left foreground; a small canoe with five Maori engaged in fishing in the right foreground; an arched rock in the water behind the boats 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. Exhibitied in 'Drawn From Nature: Europeans Record New Zealand, 1770-1860' exhibition at the National Library Gallery, 31 March to 28 May 1989. Other Titles - Mercury Bay Extended Title - From: Hawkesworth, J. An account of the voyages for making discoveries ... Vol. 2 Plate 18. 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 1.132 for the original drawing of the Maori canoe. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 238 x 270 mm

Date: 1784 - 1769

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771

Reference: A-111-011-b

Description: A pierced rock in Mercury Bay (not Tolaga Bay) with a pa on top. Shows also Maori paddling canoes Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway Same as A-111-011-a Other Titles - Pa, Mercury Bay Extended Title - From Anderson, G W ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. Derived from Hawkesworth, J. voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm

Date: 1769 - 1777 - 1820

From: [Various artists] :[Plates from All the voyages round the world] - [London ; Sir Richard Phillips & Co., 1820]

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: A-211-066/067

Description: The top image, based on an original drawing by Sydney Parkinson, shows a pa on top of an arched rock surrounded almost entirely by water. There are canoes pulled up on the sloping shoreline at the right. The lower image, from an original drawing by John Webber in 1777, shows a group of Maori in the centre foreground, with a row of huts behind them. The background shows a view over a stretch of water and distant hills. Other Titles - Pa Extended Title - Published in Samuel Prior's "All the voyages round the world" Quantity: 2 b&w art print(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 180 x 104 mm.

Date: 1803 - 1769

By: Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Klauber, Ignaz Sebastian, 1753-1817; Honkoop (Firm)

Reference: B-054-036

Description: Shows Te Puta o Paretauhinnu pa, on top of an arched rock, Mercury Bay, 1769 Other Titles - A fortified town or village on a perforated rock in New Zealand Extended Title - Published in: Cook, J Reizen rondom de waereld Pl. 14. Derived from engraving by H D Sporing on Cook's 1st voyage in: Hawkesworth, J. An account of the voyages. London, 1773. Vol. 2, pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w 235 x 187 mm on sheet 168 x 210 mm

Date: 1769 - 1773

By: Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Wilson, Irene, active 1923-1974

Reference: A-111-012

Description: Engraving from Cook's first voyage, based on a drawing of Te Puta o te Paretauhinau Pa at Mercury Bay, Coromandel Peninsula (not Tolaga Bay as claimed in the title). 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 small canoe with five Maori engaged in fishing in the right foreground; an arched rock in the water behind the boats 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. In the distance on the left is a canoe with a lateen sail. Derived from the engraving in John Hawkesworth, Voyages, Vol. 2, pl. 18 (London, 1773). 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 1.132 for the original drawing of the Maori canoe. Other Titles - Mercury Bay, Pa Extended Title - From: Pinkerton, John. A general collection of voyages and travels in all parts of the world... Vol. 11, p. 529. London, Longman Hurst Rees, Orme & Browne, 1812. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 132 x 198 mm (image) on sheet 204 x 267 mm

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: 1769 - 1773

By: Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Strahan & Company

Reference: B-098-012

Description: Engraving from the official account of Cook's first voyage, based on a drawing of Te Puta o te Paretauhinau Pa at Mercury Bay, Coromandel Peninsula (not Tolaga Bay as claimed in the title). 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 boat from the Endeavour being rowed in the left foreground; a small canoe with five Maori engaged in fishing in the right foreground; an arched rock in the water behind the boats 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. 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 1.132 for the original drawing of the Maori canoe. Other Titles - Mercury Bay Extended Title - From: Hawkesworth, J. An account of the voyages for making discoveries ... Vol. 2 Plate 18. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured 238 x 270 mm

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

Date: 1769 - 1780 - 1773 - 1790

From: Artist unknown :Views in the South Seas [1769-1779. Drawn 1780s?]

Reference: E-329-f-006

Description: Copy of an engraving published in John Hawkesworth (1773, II, Plate 18)) after Spoering 'A fortified town or village...' from Captain James Cook's first voyage to New Zealand in 1769. Shows a Te Puta o te Paretauhinu Pa atop a pierced rock at Mercury Bay, with two canoes in front, two further empty canoes pulled up on rocks to the right, and the Endeavour at anchor to the left. Verso shows handwritten text in Dutch (translation of this text in accompanying typescript). There is some variation in the details between this and the engraved version. The scene is at Mercury Bay, not Tolaga Bay Other Titles - A view of a fortified village built on a pierced rock in New Zealand [translation]. A fortified town or village called a hippah, built on a perforated rock at Tolaga in New Zealand. Mercury Bay Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink. Also verso covered in text in Dutch describing the scene Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and holograph in album 272 x 430 mm

Date: 1769 - 1784

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771

Reference: B-098-025

Description: Shows Europeans at left and Maori at right, paddling two canoes in the foreground, with the arched rock behind. Some canoes are drawn up on the steep back at the right beyond the rock. Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway (see plates in Bernard Smith and Beaglehole). Same as A-111-011-a Extended Title - From Anderson, G W ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. In Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm

Date: 1769

By: Pickersgill, Richard, 1749-1779

Reference: MapColl-832.15aj/1769/Acc.2014

Description: Navigational chart of Mercury River including soundings and one description stating 'soft ground'. Only Point Mercury is named. An extensive reference key describes fresh and salt water rivers, fortified towns, bays and banks and the shoreline. Note on original states: See shore under Gulf publ. in which Mercury Bay is copied from Cook's engraved plan. Other Titles - A plan of Port and River Mercury; called by the natives Apuragge Quantity: 1 map(s) photocopy. Physical Description: Photocopy, linen backed, 53 x 74 cm.

Date: 1773

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978 :McIntosh Collections of antique maps

By: Cook, James, 1728-1779; McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978

Reference: MapColl-832.15aj/1773/Acc.32020

Description: Charts of River Thames, Mercury Bay, Bay of Islands, and Tolaga Bay. Gives bathymetric soundings, relief with hachures, track of 'Endeavour' and rocks. From: J. Hawksworth. 'An account of the voyages undertaken...discoveries in the Southern hemisphere...' London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1773. Referenced in Tooley, 323 McIntosh Collection, item 77 Quantity: 3 map(s) on 1 sheet. Physical Description: Engraving, b & w, 27.4 x 27.3cm. or smaller, on sheet 32.2 x 44.cm

Date: 1718-1928

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2515-2518

Description: Selected papers from the Army and Naval History libraries. Include letters of General Sir Alexander Godley and papers on the Gallipoli campaign, and papers on naval exploration in the Pacific, including logs, charts and pamphlets. Quantity: 4 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1990