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Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881: View on the Patea River, Cooks Straits [1839]

Date: 1839

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: A-146-004

Description: Shows a canoe with sails on the water, and a pa (likely to be Haera Hau Pa) perched on a cliff promontory overlooking the river. There are canoes drawn up on the narrow beach under the cliff and low scrub and a path rising up the cliff face. The view is from the right bank looking southeast across the river mouth and inland, with the pa on the cliff above the left bank Heaphy visited Patea Pa (and Waimate Pa), Taranaki, in 1839 on a journey with Robert Park. A sketchbook recording the trip is in Auckland Museum Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Chas Heaphy / Portfolio D; Recto - top centre - (In red ink): No 18 Watercolour similar to this sketch is at the Hocken, Library Reference Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 Williams, E.A. (Edward Arthur), ca. 1824-1898 Patea, 1839, 95/89. https://hakena.otago.ac.nz/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/COLLECTIONS/WEB_COLL_DET_REP/SISN 444?sessionsearch accessed 28 November 2022. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 228 x 305 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company collection. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, London, 1915. Processing information: Pa site identified as Haera Hau Pa, following researcher information in November 2022. Hocken Library has watercolour of this sketch identified as Haera Hau Pa. See also "Ealry Māori", 'Patea Historical Society', https://www.pateahistoricalsociety.org.nz/early-maori.html, accessed 28 November 2022 - for a description of the Pa.

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Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :Port Wakefield, from the entrance of the Nairn River; Chatha...

Date: 1840 - 1842

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; New Zealand Company

Reference: B-043-014

Description: Shows a low lightly-wooded spit of land at the right foreground, with six ships and a small Maori canoe beyond. Tree ferns are recognisable among the larger trees. A rowing boat with six oars at work and a man standing to work the tiller is in the left foreground. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - No. 33; Recto - top centre - [New Zealand Company stamp]: Mar 23 1842; Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D; Recto - bottom right - Chas Heaphy; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 285 x 484 mm on sheet 312 x 495 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull as part of the New Zealand Company collection, per Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

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