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Various artists :[1. Hippas, New Zealand; 2. Inside of a hippa. London, Sir Richard Phi...
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.
[Sporing, Herman Diedrich], 1733-1771 :[A fortified town or village called an hippah bu...
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.