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[Heaphy, Charles] 1820-1881 :View of the rocks laying off Point Jackson - North entranc...
Date: 1839 - 1844
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company
Reference: C-025-021
Description: Seven strips of coastal profile forming a more or less continous record of the appearance of the west coast of New Zealand from Taranaki south to Queen Charlotte Sound. Part of the view is taken from Entry (i.e. Kapiti) Island The work seems most likely to have been done in 1839 when Heaphy travelled up the west coast aboard the Tory. Exhibited: "Drawn from Nature: Europeans record New Zealand 1770 - 1860". National Library Gallery 31 March - 28 May 1989; Treasures in Trust, Auckland Art Gallery, 11 November 1996 to 9 February 1997. A related series of coastal profiles, also by Heaphy, is held at the office of the Hydrographer of the Navy, Taunton, Somerset, England. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 385 x 499 mm Provenance: Commissioned by the New Zealand Company. Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull from Francis Edwards in London in 1916 with other New Zealand Company material.