Places

Date: 1843 - 1847

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-144-058

Description: A young Maori woman. She has shoulder-length hair, and a woven flax cloak wrapped around the lower part of her body Parawhakahoao Pa was reportedly in the vicinity of modern Collingwood, Golden Bay Other Titles - Parawhakahoao Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Signed: Charles Heaphy. Title and additional note bottom right in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original, 14.2 x 10.2 inches

Date: 1844

By: Baxter, George, 1804-1867; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Osborne, Mona Martha, -1955; Brown, Charles Carlino, 1820-1901

Reference: B-088-004

Description: Shows the ship Triton offshore with a Maori canoe and a rowboat approaching the shore. Mr Creed is in the rowboat while Mrs Creed is being carried onto the beach on the shoulders of a group of Maori women. The Rev. Waterhouse stands on shore, gesturing and surrounded by a large crowd of gesticulating Maori. Tree ferns and dense bush arise close to the shore and Mount Taranaki is in the background to the north. As Baxter never visited New Zealand there are several inaccuracies in the view, including the shape of Mount Taranaki and its position relative to the landing spot, which was in New Plymouth, not on the coast south of the mountain as shown here. Several plants are more tropical in style than they should be, especially the broad leafed low plants in the left foreground, which are probably supposed to be flax. The shape of Mt Taranaki is likely to be based on Charles Heaphy's early pictorial records, or on engravings after his drawings Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured Baxter print 292 x 394 mm

Date: 1844, 1848

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Fletcher, James Muir Cameron (Sir), 1914-2007; Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898

Reference: C-012-007

Description: Watercolour by Charles Heaphy. Shows a young Māori woman, Meri Wikitoria Makarini of Massacre Bay. She is smiling gently, and is seated on the ground with her legs to one side. She is barebreasted with a cloak or rug covering her lower torso and legs except for the lower right leg. Meri Makarini was the granddaughter of Henare Te Keha, and the daughter of Wikitoria te Amohau and Fritz of Bremen (information from Tuckett correspondence, 12 April 1843 in Hocken Library's MS-0156, page 195?). She was baptised by Samuel Ironside on 15 January 1843. Parawhakaoho Pa (spelled on Heaphy's similar work in the British Library as Parawakao) was reportedly close to Collingwood (source of information unknown). Heaphy's very similar portrait in the British Library is dated 1844, so it seems likely that the work depicts the subject in about 1844, despite the date of 1848. In addition, Heaphy had land in the Motueka area, relatively close to Golden Bay, between December 1842 and 1845. However, in early 1848 he worked to re-establish the boundaries of native reserves allocated at Motueka and Golden Bay and may have met Meri Wikitoria a second time, making a copy of his earlier portrait. Title transcribed from item. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Charles Heaphy / 1848 This portrait is very similar to another in the British Library Add MS 19954, Folio 58 (68), titled "Meri Wikitoria [Meri Makarini] (a half cast) of Parawakao, Massacre Bay". Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 365 x 288 mm. Provenance: Previously from the collection of Sir James and Lady Fletcher who purchased it from John Leech Gallery in 2005. Previously owned by a Paris dealer, who acquired this work and four others by Heaphy and Francis Dillon Bell at a French country sale. Possibly originally owned by Francis Dillon Bell. The Library has acquired three other works from the collection, purchased 2006 and 2014, reference numbers C-025-025, C-173-001 and C-173-002. The 5th work, a panorama of New Plymouth by Bell is in Puke Ariki. Processing information: Description updated 30 August 2023 following information provided by a staff member.