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Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889 :Inside the stockade with natives outside. ca 1850.
Date: 1848 - 1850
By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889
Reference: B-089-001
Description: Shows a Maori man and woman at the far left, standing outside a whare with carved tekoteko figure. Behind the whare is a palisade and to the far right a waka is being launched into the sea. This work has also been know as 'Meeting house and stockade' A third foreground figure has been pencilled in beside the couple at the left, but has not been completed. This painting was used as the basis for 'Stranger's house (Houraki Pah)', Plate 5 in R A Oliver's 'A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand' (London, Dickinson Bros, 1852) Title from letter of authentication on backing board (accompanies painting in same folder). See also B-189-013 by R A Oliver ('Ihawera'), possibly showing the same woman dressed in striped shirt, knotted scarf and red blanket Other Titles - Meeting house and stockade Other Titles - Stranger's house (Houraki Pah) Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 272 x 370 mm (sight) Provenance: Previously owned by the artist's descendent Mrs Madeleine McClintock and sold to Brian Groshinski. Sold at McArthur's auction to Goodman Fielder in 1984. Passed in at Webb's auction, March 1995, lot 114.
Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889 :Stranger's house (Houraki pah). Capt Oliver delt. ...
Date: 1849 - 1852 - 1851
From: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889: A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand
Reference: PUBL-0032-5
Description: Shows a Maori whare with porch and doorway, and a carved figure at the front end of the ridgepole. A man and woman in the left foreground, and three others figures stand or sit at the front of the whare. At the extreme right, two figures take a canoe to the water's edge. Another whare with a thatched roof appears in the bushes near the water. All figures are dressed in a mixture of traditional and European clothing, some in cloaks, some in blankets over shirts or dresses. Other Titles - Hauraki Pa There is also a two-tone lithograph of this image at C-054-008. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: 1 hand-coloured lithograph, 270 x 396 mm