Places

Date: 1844 - 1890 - 1969

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Heritage Fine Prints; Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: D-001-023

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A 1969 photomechanical reproduction, taken from a lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. Print no 142 of an edition of 1000 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of tinted lithograph in two colours 205 x 794 mm (image) on sheet 293 x 876 mm

Date: 1844 - 1890 - 1969

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Heritage Fine Prints; Wilson & Horton (Firm); New Zealand. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Manatū Aorere

Reference: D-001-023-a

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A 1969 photomechanical reproduction, taken from a lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. Print no 221 of an edition of 1000 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of tinted lithograph in two colours 205 x 794 mm (image) on sheet 293 x 876 mm Provenance: Donation: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Wellington, July 1994

Date: 1904

By: McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935; Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-247-030

Description: A fortified hill pa with a lake beyond to the left. A Maori man in a cloak stands in the left foreground and several others are also visible outside the palisades of the pa. Shows Te Koutu Pa on the eastern shore of Lake Okataina. A copy of a drawing by J J Merrett A copy of a lithograph 'Fortified native village' from Terry, Charles. New Zealand ... as a British colony (1842), p. 71. The 1842 lithograph is derived from a drawing by J J Merrett 'The Pah of Okataina on the lake of the same name (taken by Pomare from the Bay of Islands) in the taua [war party] pf Hungi [Hongi] 16 years ago [1825]'. The original drawing is held in the Library, reference number E-216-f-179 The gate (waharoa) shown in the palisade around the base of the hill is now in the collection of Auckland Museum Other Titles - Merrett, Joseph Jenner :The Pah of Okataina on the Lake of the same name, 1841. Pa, Te Koutu. Fortified native village Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - signature in gouache: J. McDonald; also top left, in partially illegible pencil; Re O Karoka. Rot. 1842. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Gouache 190 x 230 mm