Places
Places related to your search results. This map shows just part of our unpublished collections – there's more coming as we add location information to records. Learn how to use the map.
[Webber, John] 1751-1773 :[The inside of a hippah in New Zealand, 1778-1779. Plate] 69 ...
Date: 1778 - 1784 - 1827 - 1779 - 1833
By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Fumagalli, Paolo, 1797-1873; Giulio Ferrario (Firm)
Reference: A-447-012
Description: A view inside a pa or kainga with a group of four Maori standing and seated in the foreground, one man leaning on a taiaha. Two further Maori are seated in conversation on the right. They are in an open flat area, surrounded by low dwellings, with part of a palisade in the background. The view is on Cook's 'Hippah Island' with Motuara Island rising behind to the north, in Queen Charlotte Sound Derived from an engraving after John Webber 'The inside of a hippah in New Zealand' published in Cook, J and J King. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean (London, 1784). The Italian aquatint version is cropped on the right, omitting a further dwelling, fencing and a canoe in the water Inscriptions: Recto - top right - [printed plate number] 69. [Bottom right beneath image, printed etcher's name] Fumagalli f[ecit]. [Bottom right of sheet, in pencil] Neuseeland Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, hand-coloured, 182 x 238 mm (platemark) on sheet 249 x 367 mm Provenance: Purchase: Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, 21 November 2011