Places

Date: 1862 - 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford and Samuel Deighton. 1860-1880]

Reference: E-926-043

Description: Shows a village at Tokaanu, Taupo, where some of the storehouses are cut into the cliffs with rectangular openings. There are also huts and storehouses on top of the cliff. Labelled features are: the Kaimanawa Range (far left), Pihanga moutain (centre distance) and Herekiekie's grave in the far right background. A road cuts through a gorge at the far left, and there are talls grasses in the left foreground. Other Titles - Rotoaira Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], page [43 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 145 x 235 mm

Date: 1844 - 1888 - 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Kirkwood, Henry William, 1854-1925

Reference: B-110-021-3

Description: The interior of Te Wherowhero's pa, with Taupiri mountain rising in the background. There is a row of houses to the left, some with palisades around them, groups of people seated in the centre, and other buildings, including pataka, on the right Angas visited New Zealand in 1844. This is a redrawing of his lithograph 'Tu Kaitote ...' plate 15 in his The New Zealanders illustrated (London, 1847). The copyist is probably H. W. Kirkwood One of four lithographs on one sheet, all copies of work by Angas and probably all copied by Kirkwood. The centre of the sheet is inscribed in blue pencil 'Printed 2500 copies' Other Titles - Tu Kaitote, the pah of Te Wherowhero on the Waikato, Taupiri Mountain in the distance Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 216 x 145 mm

Date: 1882

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: G-633

Description: A pre-eruption view of Lake Rotokakahi (Green Lake) shows the Maori village of Kaiteriria. In the left foreground a group of Maori is seated on the ground beside a raised storehouse (pataka), with several other pataka and whare further away. There is a stake fence between the pataka and the whare, as well as another pataka on the headland reaching away into the lake. Three figures sit in a waka with a small rectangular sail at lower right. The island or headland at the far right has a flat top which may be a pa site. There are bare steep hills on the far side of the lake. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - top centre - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - C Blomfield. 1882 Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 420 x 672 mm (sight)

Date: 1772 - 1883

By: Meryon, Charles, 1821-1868; Focillon, Victor Louis, 1849-1918; Lemercier et Compagnie (Firm); Maison Charavay (Firm)

Reference: A-447-007

Description: Reconstruction of the death of Marion Du Fresne in the Bay of Islands in 1772. Shows part of a pa, with a store-house (pataka) and fence. A group of implements and European objects is in the foreground, including a three-cornered hat and a sword. A cabbage tree and flax plants can be seen in the foreground. Marion du Fresne is surrounded by a number of Maori, with others looking on from the pataka. He is distracted by one of the Maori men offering him what looks like a bird, while another Maori stands behind him, about to strike him with a club. A Maori woman is walking off to the left with another French sailor, and a Pakeha youth, probably one of the ship's crew, looks on in horror. State: Second state; appears in Aglaus Bouvenne, Notes et souvenirs sur Charles Meryon, son tombeau au cimetiere de Charenton Saint Maurice (Paris: Charavay Freres, 1883), facing p.12. This book was published in an edition of 335 copies Other Titles - Assassination of Marion Du Fresne, drawn after Meryon and rendered as an etching by V Focillon. Photogravure by Lemercier. Published by Charavay brothers, Paris. Printed by Lemercier and Co [translation] Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Meryon [in pencil]; Recto - bottom left - Navigateur né Saint-Malo 1729 [in pencil]; Recto - bottom centre - S29 [in pencil, crossed out] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching and photogravure, 128 x 195 mm (plate mark), on sheet of laid paper 250 x 325 mm