Places

Date: 1863 - 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: A-259-004

Description: Shows three Maori men and a European hunting a boar with dogs; the Maori men are dressed in traditional clothes and have moko. Three of the party are carrying firearms, while one Maori man is spearing the boar from the back with a taiaha. The area shown as plains in Brees' original engraving is shown as a lake or broad river behind the group. An Italian adaptation of plate IX (after a drawing by Brees made in the early 1840s) in Wakefield, E J Illustrations to Adventures in New Zealand. London 1845 (f919.31) This version of Brees' lithograph was first published in Das Buch der Welt (Stuttgart, Hoffmann, 1842-) a long-running illustrated German encyclopaedia. This print was published as plate 15 in the issue for 1863. It appears to be from an Italian edition of Das Buch der Welt and bears the same imprint (the date and numbers below) as the original German impression. There is no visible text in Italian on the print, apart from the very faint remains of offprinting of text from the page opposite, from the volume in which this engraving was originally published Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - 1863, lower left; 15 lower right Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand coloured engraving 157 x 238 mm

Date: 1845 - 1848 - 1846

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-015

Description: Five drawings on one page. From the top, 'Heke's first pah' shows Hone Heke's pa in the background, with Lake Omapere in the foreground, groups of Maori gathered. 'Landing a canoe' shows a long waka landing by pa pallisades to the right, with a volcanic peak in the background. Seated and standing men are in the canoe, and on land. Five rowers are waving oars in the air. The view of Tamaki shows a rolling landscape with a ridged volcanic peak in the background. 'Three seated Maori' have their cloaks wrapped around them. 'Chief at Taupo' is a profile view of a man in a cloak, with bushy receding hair, possibly Te Heu Heu. Other Titles - Omapere Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of five sepia ink and wash drawings

Date: 1845 - 1848 - 1846

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-018

Description: Three drawings on one page. Two Maori men shows a standing man in a rain cape, a seated figure in front, a pataka and part of a palisade behind. 'Tewera' shows a young Maori girl, kneeling or squatting, a garment wrapped round her waist. 'The Waikatto River at Horotiu' shows a bend in the river among hills, with scattered bush, a pa atop the highest hill to the left. Other Titles - Waikato Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of three watercolour, pencil, and pen and ink drawings

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878

Reference: A-114-053

Description: Head and shoulders profile portrait of E Piko, chief of Motueka pa, wearing a kiwi feather cloak This work inscribed in pencil at top "John? Cleavely" and on verso "James Clevely artist with Captain Cook": these inscriptions appear to be the work of a recent owner, who assumed that the monogram read J. C. See: Minson, Marian. Art as evidence : the enigma of the Nelson Maori portraits. In: Turnbull Library Record. v.23, no.1, May 1990, p.47-67. Piko was a chief at Motueka and a regular visitor to Nelson in the early 1840s Other Titles - E Piko, Motueka, Blind Bay, 1843 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; also monogram I. C. inside a circle. Similar works held by Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass., in a private collection in New Zealand, and by the Library at A-288, with title E Piko, Kafir [Kawhia] chief & at A-114-048, a copy by an artist called R. Hall Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & ink, 178 x 148 mm (image) on sheet 330 x 240 mm Provenance: Previously lot 294 at Christie's, London, 10. 6. 1986.

Date: 1843 - 1845

By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878

Reference: A-255-018

Description: Head and shoulder portrait of Maori chief and warrior Te Rauparaha, in profile. He wears an albatross-feather ear adornment, a feather in his hair and a cloak. The artist, Isaac Coates, had the opportunity to observe Te Rauparaha in Nelson in March 1843, when Rauparaha, Rangihaeata and their wives visited Nelson. A number of copies of this portrait were made, particularly after Te Rauparaha became notorious amongst Pakeha settlers after the Wairau Affray in June 1843. Coates left Nelson in 1845 and moved to Australia, so may have taken this version with him, although he appears to have made copies on demand and could have made this for somebody else, rather than himself. Some of the later copies are rather carelessly done, however, and this version appears to be an earlier and more accurate one, comparable in quality to the version in the Bett Collection, Nelson Provincial Museum. It gives a clear view of Te Rauparaha's aquiline nose and prominent upper lip, confirmed by contemporary descriptions. The Library holds other versions of this portrait and there is a version, along with seventeen others by Coates, in the Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachussets. See also "The enigma of the Nelson Maori portraits" by Marian Minson, in "Turnbull Library Record", Vol 23, no. 1, May 1990, p 47-67, especially p. 55 & 56. This version may be the original for awood engraving in the Illustrated London News of 29 June 1844 p 412, since the title is the same. Other Titles - Kawhia Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink, probably in the hand of the artist. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 277 x 185 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878

Reference: A-286-006

Description: Head and shoulders profile portrait of E Piko, chief of Motueka pa, wearing a kiwi feather cloak See: Minson, Marian. Art as evidence : the enigma of the Nelson Maori portraits. In: Turnbull Library Record. v.23, no.1, May 1990, p.47-67. Piko was a chief at Motueka and a regular visitor to Nelson in the early 1840s. Other Titles - E Piko, Motueka, Blind Bay, 1843 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Similar works held by Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass., in a private collection in New Zealand, and by the Library at A-114-048, a copy by an artist called R.Hall & at A-114-053, an earlier version signed with Isaac Coates' monogram. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 257 x 192 mm Provenance: Part of a house sale in Boston, purchased by New York dealer, then by Auckland dealer.