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Sporing, Hermann Diedrich, 1733-1771 :Pah fortifie sur l'arcade de Tegadou / Danvin del...
Date: 1836
By: Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Domeny de Rienzi, Gregoire Louis, 1789-1843
Reference: A-015-011
Description: A pa atop an arched rock at Mercury Bay Originally derived from engraving after Sporing on Cook's 1st voyage in Hawkesworth, J. An account of the voyages. London. 1773. Vol. 2, pl. 18 The arched rock has been wrongly identified as Cook's 'Tegadou' (Tolaga Bay) or Anaura Bay. It was located at Mercury Bay Other Titles - Fortified pa on the arch at Tegadou, (Tolaga Bay) Anaura Bay, Mercury Bay Extended Title - Published in: Domeny de Rienzi, G. L. Oceanie. Pl. 127. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, 118 x 207 mm
Sporing, Herman Dierich, ca 1730-1771 :A Fortified town, on a perforated rock, at Tolag...
Date: 1800 - 1840
By: Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771
Reference: A-111-097
Description: Shows te Puta o Paretauhinau Pa, Mercury Bay (not Tolaga Bay), on top of a large arched rock at the water's edge Extended Title - Derived from engraving of drawing by H D Sporing on Cook's 1st voyage in: Hawkesworth, J. An account of the voyages. London, 1773. Vol. 2, pl. 18. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, 109 x 158 mm on sheet 115 x 166 mm
[Sporing, Herman Diedrich], 1733-1771 :[A fortified town or village called an hippah bu...
Date: 1769 - 1810 - 1830
By: Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Castellini, G, active 1780-1800; Hill, Julian, active 1996-2009
Reference: A-054-011
Description: Aquatint based on a drawing of Te Puta o te Paretauhinau Pa at Mercury Bay, Coromandel Peninsula. The drawing of the pa is by Herman Diedrich Sporing, Sir Joseph Banks' clerk; the canoe is copied from a drawing by Sydney Parkinson, the official artist aboard the Endeavour. The scene shows a long war canoe in the left foreground; an arched rock in the water behind the boat with a pa on top of it; two canoes pulled up on the bank to the right behind the arched rock and dense bush in the background. From an unknown Italian publication. One of the engravers of this publication was Biasioli (1790-1830). The pa shown was seen in November 1769. See Joppien & Smith. The art of Captain Cook's voyages, vol 1, cat. no. 1.121 for the original drawing of the pa, and 1.142 for the original drawing of the Maori canoe. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - G Castellini inc Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Handcoloured aquatint, plate 190 x 230 mm on loose page, 240 x 340 mm. Provenance: Purchased by the vendor from a dealer in Washington DC.