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Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :How we went to the diggings and what we did there. In a seri...
Date: 1852
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Fox, Charles Arundel Overbury (Dr), 1886?-1971; Jones, Theodore Moreton, 1828-1895
Reference: E-299
Description: Comical drawings of officers of the Pandora, along with Gold Commissioner, Charles Heaphy, at the Coromandel goldfields The hand-writing is that of Theodore Morton Jones, the drawing by Charles Heaphy. The officers on the expedition were Lieut. Jones and Messrs Oke, William Stanley, Cuming, William Blackney, Andrew Farmer, Leck, Thomas Hooper Kerr and Ellis. The Pandora's Master in 1852 was Byron Drury and her surgeon was John Jolliffe and they are both mentioned in the captions to the drawings. Extended Title - Spine title: Drawings of the Coromandel gold field. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) containing 4 cartoons in 1/2 morocco binding. Physical Description: 4 pencil and watercolour drawings 140 x 230 mm Provenance: By descent from Rear-Admiral T. Morton Jones, who was serving as a Lieutenant aboard H. M. S. Pandora, stationed off Auckland in Sept-Oct. 1852. He joined a party of fellow-officers for a gold-prospecting picnic to the diggings at Coromandel. Listed in the Museum Book Store Catalogue (London) in 1915, 1923 and 1927, then purchased (already bound) by Dr Charles A. O. Fox, of Lynch Cottage, Llanmorlais, Gower, Wales. He mentioned them in a letter to the Library dated 14 March 1960 (TL3/1/1) and they were subsequently acquired by the Library after passing through the hands of dealers Newricks and Bethunes.
Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Ch...
Date: 1822 - 1825
By: LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851; Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854; Tardieu, Ambroise, 1788-1841; Fox, Charles Arundel Overbury (Dr), 1886?-1971
Reference: C-082-001/130
Description: Copies made by Antoine Chazal of the original drawings by LeJeune; also several original drawings by Chazal, one by Duperrey and three by Blosseville. Engravings and aquatints, hand-coloured by Chazal and uncoloured proofs by Tardieu after the drawings of Chazal, prepared for publication in Louis Isidore Duperrey - Voyage autour du monde ...sur la corvette de sa Majeste La Coquille ... 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825 ... Paris, 1826. Atlas historique. Plates 1-60. Also includes title page and type part-cover with decorative border and handwritten label. Contents include portraits of Chileans and Peruvians, portraits and landscapes of New Zealand, the Society Islands including Tahiti, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), New Guinea, Caroline Islands and St Helena. See also: Sharp, C. A. Duperrey's visit to New Zealand in 1824. (Wellington, 1971) Physical Description: Watercolours, engravings (hand-coloured), aquatints various sizes Provenance: Dr Fox Collection