Places

Date: 1826 - 1841 - 1829

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Lalaisse, Francois Hippolyte, 1812-1884; Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842

Reference: A-327-016

Description: Shows a beach-side Maori kainga, with a row of whare and two war canoes, one being launched and one already in the water. A version of Sainson's "Village a l'Anse de l'Astrolabe (Nouvelle Zelande)". Purports to illustrate Cook's Voyage but is derived from the lithograph by Villeneuve, after de Sainson. Other Titles - Inhabitants of New Zealand launching their canoe into the sea Extended Title - Published in: Nouvelle bibliotheque des voyages anciens et modernes [1841] Vol. 3. Pl. 3, opp page 151. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Steel engraving, 110 x 160 mm, on sheet 135 x 215 mm.

Date: 1840 - 1850

From: Mathew, Felton 1808-1847 :[Scrapbook. ca.1845].

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: E-389-q-001

Description: Shows six Maori men launching a canoe into waves. Palm trees or tall tree ferns are at the right. Engraving has been cut from page containing 2 engravings; see full page at A-256-028. Image of canoe, and possibly the whole image, is derived from a work by Louis Auguste de Sainson 'Village a l'anse de l'Astrolabe, Nouvelle Zelande' showing Astrolabe Bay (Golden Bay, South Island) not Mercury Bay, with local Maori dragging a canoe into the water, in 1827 during a French visit to the area. The palm trees suggest a scant knowledge of New Zealand geography and flora on the part of the engraver. Not in Ellis' Early prints of New Zealand (1978) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - MERCURY BAY - NEW ZEALAND Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, two-tone 93 x 85 mm, on sheet 288 x 240 mm.

Date: 1833 - 1828

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Vanderburch, H, active 1833

Reference: B-052-006

Description: A close-up view from the water of two canoes drawn up on the beach and several low European dwellings beyond in a sheltered bay. A pataka (storage platform) can be seen on the hill behind the houses. Two Maori are seated in front of the houses and two are standing behind a low Maori whare on the right. From: Dumont D'Urville. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe, 1826-1829. Paris: 1833. Atlas 1. Pl. 61. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 255 x 340 mm

Date: 1833

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Adam, Jean Victor, 1801-1867; Tirpenne, Jean Louis, 1801-

Reference: B-052-018

Description: Shows a rocky inlet, Maori, a pohutukawa tree and the Astrolabe on the distant horizon. Published in: Dumont d'Urville, J.S.C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe. Atlas [historique]. Pl.62. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 193 x 317 mm, on sheet 350 x 440 mm

Date: 1841

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Lalaisse, Francois Hippolyte, 1812-1884; Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842

Reference: A-211-004-a

Description: Depicts Kahouwera Pa, situated on the eastern headland of Paroa Bay, Bay of Islands Purports to illustrate Cook's Voyage but is derived from the lithograph by Derby, after de Sainson, "Vue Interieure Du Pa De Kahouwera." In: Dumont d'Urville. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe...1833. Atlas Pl. 52 Trimmed within plate-mark along top border. Trimming excludes the additional title in Portuguese noted in the Library's other loose copy of this print at A-211-004 Other Titles - Huts of the inhabitants of New Zealand [translation] Extended Title - Published in: Nouvelle bibliotheque des voyages anciens et modernes [1841] Vol. 3. Pl. 4. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Steel engraving, 110 x 160 mm, on sheet 130 x 210 mm.

Date: 1788

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Brodtmann, Karl Joseph, 1787-1862

Reference: A-464-033

Description: Shows vignettes of three Maori whare, one in Tolaga Bay on the East Coast, and two in the Bay of Islands. The latter two have decorative carving around the windows and doors and on the maihi, or diagonal bargeboards. The hut is unadorned The chieftan Pomare could refer to Pomare I, originally named Whetoi, who established pa in the Bay of Islands in the late 18th and early 19th centuries Other Titles - New Zealand. Hut in Tolaga Bay (6 feet high). House belonging to a Bay of Islands chieftan (6 feet high). House belonging to the chieftan Pomare, in the Bay of Islands (8 feet high) [translation] Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842. Entdeckungs-Reise der franzosischen Corvette Astrolabe ... aus dem Franzosischen mit einem lithographirten Atlas. Schaffhausen [Switzerland], in J. Brodtmann's lithograpischen Anstalt, [1836? Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph on wove paper, 260 x 360 mm Provenance: Purchase: Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, April 2014

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..