Places

Date: 1827 - 1833

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Saint-Aulaire, Felix Achille, 1801-; Hill, Julian, active 1996-2009

Reference: B-112-009

Description: A view from the shore of Astrolabe Bay, Nelson Region, with three French sailors on shore, a walking stick, a trunk or barrel and a ?specimen case lying on the sand, two Maori canoes in the water, the Astrolabe moored out at sea, and Adele Island (named after Dumont d'Urville's wife) in the background. Other Titles - Astrolabe Bay New Zealand Extended Title - In: Dumont d'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe ... Paris, J. Tastu, 1833. Atlas, Volume I, Plate 37. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - de Sainson pinx / J Tastu, editeur; Recto - bottom right - A St Aulaire, lith. / Lith A Bes; Recto - top right - Pl 37; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 215 x 345 mm

Date: 1827 - 1991

From: Various artists: [New Zealand seen by the French; postcards]. Wellington, National Library of New Zealand, 1991.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: E-279-q-157-A

Description: Reproduction of a watercolour by Louis-Auguste de Sainson. A view from a hill to the south of Paihia, looking north along the beach line, with the houses and gardens of the Church Missionary Society station, home of the Rev. Henry Williams and his family. Two European men and a small boy are standing on the hill in the foreground beside a tree. The artist visited the site in March 1827. A pencil drawing by Sainson of this view, dated 12 March 1827, is in the Archives Nationales, Paris, (Marine JJ 102 A f 14); and the original watercolour is in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. There are also later engraved versions of the same view, one in Dumont d'Urville's 'Voyage pittoresque autour du monde', Paris, 1835, Vol 2, p. 356 and one in Domeny de Rienzi's 'Oceanie' Vol 2, Paris 1836, plate 174. Each of these later versions shows signficant changes in the detail. Other Titles - Etablissement des missionaires (Nouvelle Zelande) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, on card 105 x 150 mm

Date: 1833 - 1827

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Deroy, Isidore Laurent, 1797-1886

Reference: B-052-007-a

Description: An extensive view of Jacks Bay (Manawaora Bay, Bay of Islands) looking down from a hill to the south of the bay, along the foreshore and out towards the sea. A ship, probably the Astrolabe, is shown anchored out in the bay and a small schooner is shown at the water's edge. The artist visited the Bay of Islands in 1827, and signs of European habitation are slight. There is washing hanging on a clothes-line, a row of barrels, several Europeans moving around and several raupo dwellings. From: Dumont D'Urville. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe, 1826-1829. Paris: 1833. Atlas 1. Pl.50 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 200 x 315 mm

Date: 1826 - 1836 - 1829

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: A-433-013/024

Description: See individual records Quantity: 12 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on pages, sizes varying around 280 x 183 mm.

Date: 1827 - 1991

From: Various artists: [New Zealand seen by the French; postcards]. Wellington, National Library of New Zealand, 1991.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: E-279-q-157

Description: Reproduction of a watercolour by Louis-Auguste de Sainson. A view from a hill to the south of Paihia, looking north along the beach line, with the houses and gardens of the Church Missionary Society station, home of the Rev. Henry Williams and his family. Two European men and a small boy are standing on the hill in the foreground beside a tree. The artist visited the site in March 1827. A pencil drawing by Sainson of this view, dated 12 March 1827, is in the Archives Nationales, Paris, (Marine JJ 102 A f 14); and the original watercolour is in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. There are also later engraved versions of the same view, one in Dumont d'Urville's 'Voyage pittoresque autour du monde', Paris, 1835, Vol 2, p. 356 and one in Domeny de Rienzi's 'Oceanie' Vol 2, Paris 1836, plate 174. Each of these later versions shows signficant changes in the detail. Other Titles - Etablissement des missionaires (Nouvelle Zelande) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, on card 105 x 150 mm

Date: 1833 - 1827

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: B-052-017

Description: Shows an abandoned pa, with French sailors in the foreground Lacks printer's name. Possibly a proof state from the first edition of the atlas in which it appeared. Other Titles - View of Kahuwera, fortified village at the Bay of Islands [translation] Extended Title - From Dumont d'Urville, J S C - Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe. Atlas [historique] Pl. 51. First edition. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand coloured lithograph, 192 x 340 mm

Date: 1827 - 1833

By: Noel, Alexis Nicholas, 1792-1848; Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: B-052-005

Description: Shows Maori and canoes, and a shore-built observatory Other Titles - Observatory of the ship Astrolabe in one of the bays at Houa Houa (Tolaga Bay) Extended Title - From Dumont d'Urville. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe, 1826-1827-1828-1829. Paris. 1833. Atlas 1, Plate 46 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured lithograph, 216 x 317 mm

Date: 1833 - 1827

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: B-052-017-a

Description: Shows an abandoned pa atop a hill in the Bay of Islands, with French sailors in foreground Includes printer's name. 2nd state. Other Titles - View of Kahuwera, fortified village at the Bay of Islands [translation] Extended Title - From Dumont d'Urville, J S C - Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe. Atlas [historique] Pl. 51. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand coloured lithograph, 192 x 340 mm

Date: 1826 - 1833 - 1829

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Adam, Victor Jean, 1801-1866; Tastu, J, active 1828-1833; Saint-Aulaire, Felix Achille, 1801-

Reference: B-176-001

Description: A view towards Bream Head and the Whangarei Heads with a Maori waka in the foreground. The Astrolabe can also be seen in the distance at sea, to the right. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Pl. 49 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, image 212 x 345 mm, on sheet 360 x 547 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1827 - 1834 - 1835

From: Various artists :[Four handcoloured engravings, some from Dumont d'Urvilles' Voyage pittoreque autour du monde (Paris, 1834)]

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: A-340-037

Description: A view along the beach with several low thatched huts and a canoe pulled up on the beach, bush on the hills behind. Two Maori men are seated in the foreground, and other men and women are also present. A toetoe is in flower to the right of the nearest dwelling. Other Titles - Houses at Astrolabe Bay New Zealand Extended Title - From an edition of Dumont d'Urville, J.S.C. Voyage pittoresque autour du monde, ca 1834. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on engraving, 95 x 120 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Judy Sears, Wellington, in 2005.

Date: 1827 - 1833

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Arago, Jacques Etienne Victor, 1790-1854

Reference: B-052-019

Description: A view from a hill to the south of Paihia, looking north along the beach line, with the houses and gardens of the Church Missionary Society station, home of the Rev. Henry Williams and his family. Two European men and a small boy are standing on the hill in the foreground beside a tree. The artist visited the site in March 1827. A pencil drawing by Sainson of this view, dated 12 March 1827, is in the Archives Nationales, Paris, (Marine JJ 102 A f 14); and a watercolour, more closely like the lithograph, is in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. There are also later engraved versions of the same view, one in Dumont d'Urville's 'Voyage pittoresque autour du monde', Paris, 1835, Vol 2, p. 356 and one in Domeny de Rienzi's 'Oceanie' Vol 2, Paris 1836, plate 174. Each of these later versions shows signficant changes in the detail. Other Titles - Missionary establishment [at Paihia] New Zealand. Extended Title - From Dumont d'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe. Atlas historique. Plate 56. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 231 x 345 mm on sheet 350 x 470 mm

Date: 1827 - 1833

From: Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842 :Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe execute pendant les annees 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829. Atlas historique. Paris, Tastu, 1833.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Maurin, Antoine, 1793-1860

Reference: PUBL-0038-1-054

Description: Head and shoulder portraits of five Maori from Astrolabe Bay, showing a woman and a young woman at the top, a child in profile in the centre, and two men, both with moko, below. Other Titles - New Zealand. 1. Woman of Astrolabe Bay. 2,3. Young girl and little boy. 4. Tehi-Noui. 5. Kohi-Hore. [translation] Extended Title - In: Dumont d'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe ... Paris, J. Tastu, 1833. Atlas, Volume I, Plate 54 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 515 x 342 mm

Date: 1839 - 1827

From: Dumont d'Urville, Jean Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842 :Voyage pittoresque autour du monde et resume generale des descouvertes. Paris, Furne et Cie, 1839.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Boilly, Alphonse, 1801-1867

Reference: PUBL-0034-2-387

Description: A group of a dozen Maori women digging up land for a kumara plantation. In the background is a low whare with a rounded roof and two futher Maori talk to French sailors. In the left foreground is a storage platform holding kete, possibly filled with kumara. Sainson was in New Zealand with Dumont d'Urville in 1827. He would have observed a scene like this in the Far North District, probably in the Bay of Islands. The French word 'patate' normally refers to the sweet potato or kumara in New Zealand. Dumont d'Urville describes Maori as cultivating 'pommes de terre [potatoes], patates [sweet potatoes] et taro'. Other Titles - Clearing or digging up a potato (kumara) field Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving,

Date: 1827 - 1833

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Adam, Jean Victor, 1801-1867; Milbert, Jacques Gerard, 1766-1840

Reference: B-052-003

Description: French sailors from Dumont d'Urville's ship the Astrolabe washing their clothes and relaxing by a stream flowing out into Astrolabe Roadstead, Tasman Bay (now Watering Bay, part of the Abel Tasman track). Trees growing from rocks to the left and right of the sailors and a large rock formation with trees at the water's edge in the middle ground. From an original watercolour in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Other Titles - Watering-place in Astrolabe Bay, New Zealand (translation) Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe, 1826-1827-1828-1829. Paris, 1833. Atlas, Plate 39. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 232 x 327 mm

Date: 1827 - 1833

From: Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842 :Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe execute pendant les annees 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829. Atlas historique. Paris, Tastu, 1833.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Saint-Aulaire, Felix Achille, 1801-

Reference: PUBL-0038-1-037

Description: A view from the shore of Astrolabe Bay, Nelson Region, with three French sailors on shore, a walking stick, a trunk or barrel and a ?specimen case lying on the sand, two Maori canoes in the water, the Astrolabe moored out at sea, and Adele Island (named after Dumont d'Urville's wife) in the background. Other Titles - Astrolabe Bay New Zealand Extended Title - In: Dumont d'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe ... Paris, J. Tastu, 1833. Atlas, Volume I, Plate 37. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 215 x 345 mm

Date: 1833 - 1827

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Deroy, Isidore Laurent, 1797-1886

Reference: B-052-007

Description: An extensive view of Jacks Bay (Manawaora Bay, Bay of Islands) looking down from a hill south of the bay, along the foreshore and out towards the sea. ship, probably the Astrolabe, is shown anchored out in the bay and a small schooner is shown at the water's edge. The artist visited the Bay of Islands in 1827, and signs of European habitation are slight. There is washing hanging on a clothes-line, a row of barrels, several Europeans moving around and several raupo dwellings. From: Dumont D'Urville. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe, 1826-1829. Paris: 1833. Atlas 1. Pl.50 Other Titles - View of the Bay of Islands (New Zealand) [translation] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, on India paper, 200 x 315 mm

Date: 1769 - 1846

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Pottier de l'Horme, Jean, 1738?-; LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851; Meryon, Charles, 1821-1868

Reference: A-284-075/087

Description: Photographs of paintings and drawings from the Bibliotheque Nationale, the Service Historique de la Marine, the Archives Nationales, Paris, all of early New Zealand subjects - Maori portraits, artifacts, pa, etc, by the artists accompanying de Surville, Dumont D'Urville, Duperrey, Marion du Fresne, etc See catalogue of New Zealand seen by the French for identifiying details. Exhibited in 'New Zealand seen by the French' exhibition curated by Roger Collins and shown at the National Library of New Zealand in 1990. Quantity: 13 photograph(s). Physical Description: 10 black and white photographs, 180 x 240 mm; 3 colour transparencies 130 x 180 mm Transfers: To Photographic Archive - two b& w negatives, assigned numbers C-19436 & 19437..

Date: 1827 - 1833

From: Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842 :Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe execute pendant les annees 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829. Atlas historique. Paris, Tastu, 1833.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Saint-Aulaire, Felix Achille, 1801-

Reference: PUBL-0038-1-049

Description: A view towards Bream Head and the Whangarei Heads with a Maori waka in the foreground. The Astrolabe can also be seen in the distance at sea, to the right Other Titles - View of Cape Whangarei, New Zealand Extended Title - In: Dumont d'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe ... Paris, J. Tastu, 1833. Atlas, Volume I, Plate 49 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 195 x 390 mm

Date: 1833

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Saint-Aulaire, Felix Achille, 1801-

Reference: B-192-039

Description: A view from the shore of Astrolabe Bay, Tasman Region, with three French sailors on shore, a walking stick, a trunk or barrel and a specimen case lying on the sand, two Maori canoes in the water, the Astrolabe moored out at sea, and Adele Island (named after Dumont d'Urville's wife) in the background Other Titles - Astrolabe Bay (New Zealand) [translation] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 270 x 395 mm in matt 425 x 535 mm