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Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :View on the Pelorus River. Drawn by C Heaphy from a sketch b...
Date: 1839
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Wakefield, Edward Jerningham, 1820-1879; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: A-145-007
Description: Shows a Maori canoe with carved prow, containing 2 figures, one Maori, one European, and a dog, alongside a raft or mokihi being paddled by a young Maori man in the foreground. Both craft negotiate river rapids. In right foreground a fallen tree trunk is a perch for a few birds, and in the background cabbage trees stand in front of denser bush. The scene is thought to be close to modern Canvastown The rapids, or low waterfall on the Pelorus River, were close to modern Canvastown Listed by the New Zealand Company as received in London by the Company [before 1842], item no. 5 E J Wakefield wrote about travelling with his uncle William Wakefield up the Pelorus River between 6 and 16 September 1839 and mentioned that the paddler on the mokihi or raft was a 12-year-old boy. perched in the centre of a raft made of two bundles of raupo tied with flax. (Adventure in New Zealand, 1845, page 63). Heaphy remained with the Tory, in Tory Channel Other Titles - Wakefield, Edward Jerningham Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - No. 5; Verso - top centre - No. 1 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 255 x 364 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, with other New Zealand Company material, Francis Edwards, London, 1914.
Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 :View on the Great Lake, Chatham Island. [1840]
Date: 1840
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company
Reference: A-146-002
Description: Shows a lake scene (Te Whanga Lagoon) with two ducks in the water and two shags on a branch in the foreground, a canoe on the lake in right distance. Across the lake is a distinctive volcanic cone hill with smaller peaks further in the distance. Tree ferns, a cabbage tree and other trees are nearby, with flax flowering on the strip of land in the foreground The volcanic peak shown may be Te Ranga, close to the South-west corner of Te Whanga Lagoon Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Chas Heaphy Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing 132 x 355 mm on sheet 221 x 368 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company collection. Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, from Francis Edwards, London, 1915.
[Heaphy, Charles] 1820-1881 :View in the Nelson district. [1841]
Date: 1841 - 1842
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: C-025-004
Description: Shows view from high vantage point, looking over flat plain towards present-day Motueka, and out to Tasman Bay. Kaiteriteri is on the left, and D'Urville Island in the right distance with French Pass visible as a gap between the island and the mainland. New Zealand Company drawing no. 70. This is the original drawing for the lithograph 'The level country at the south end looking north of Blind Bay' published in E. J. Wakefield's 'Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand' in 1845. The lithographer has added cows to the foreground and changed the predominant tree ferns and cabbage tree seen in this view. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [New Zealand Company stamp]: 23 Mar 1842; Recto - No. 70 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing 227 x 533 mm (trimmed) Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull.