Places

Date: 1844

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-025

Description: Buildings shown are the whaling station at Te Kopi, Palliser Bay. See similar view, with title, reproduced in McArthur's auction catalogue for sale 4 August 1987, lot 52. Shows a high rock, being climbed by three Pakeha men, on the right, a cluster of several low buildings near the shore and a path through low scrub in the foreground. A Maori woman [?] is walking away from the viewer and further along the path is a European man and another person. Date of 1844 is suggested because Brees' watercolour entitled Cape Palliser is dated 1844, and this view is likely to have been taken on the same exploratory trip. There are faint map outlines in pencil on the verso. Other Titles - Whaling station, Te Kopi, Palliser Bay, 1844? Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in brushpoint Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 223 x 378 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-020

Description: A group of Maori before an archway in a rock alongside the sea. The South Island can be seen in the distance. Flax is growing from the cliff face to the left. Original of no 31 in Brees' Archway at Pari Pari, in "Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand" (London, 1847) A sepia wash copy, either by another artist or by Brees, titled Pukerua, Manawatu 1844 is in a scrapbook of T. E. Donne, held by the Mitchell Library, Sydney The name Paripari is no longer in use. Paripari was a small Maori settlement on a terrace above the shore between Paekakariki and Pukerua Bay Other Titles - Cooks Strait Paripari Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 228 x 330 mm