Places

Date: 1841

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Whitby, M A S, active 1841; Tomlinson family

Reference: B-038-001-a

Description: Shows Ensign Best (or Ernst Dieffenbach) on left with cap, Captain Symonds in cape. Te Waru's daughter is being denounced for murder. Te Waru is standing against a background of a carved memorial, holding his daughter by her arm. Other Maori men and women are seated in a group around Te Waru and his daughter. There is a pataka (storehouse) to the left and a gourd is being emptied onto a fire on the far right. Engraving by Whitby, after a sketch by J.J. Merrett. Derived from a sketch by J.J. Merrett, made on a trip with Best, Symonds & Dieffenbach, 1841. Other Titles - Te Waru Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - M A S Whitby Journal of Ensign Best, Wellington, 1966, p. 298-299; Dieffenbach, Ernst, Travels in New Zealand, vol. II, (frontispiece), E-143-041. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Zinc engraving, on sheet, 363 x 550 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by the Tomlinson family, and lent by them to the Missionary Loan Exhibition. A former Mrs Tomlinson (née Symonds), a descendent of Captain John Symonds who is shown in the picture. (This information from accompanying backing board).

Date: 1844 - 1847

From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.

By: Hawkins, Frances Louisa, -1884

Reference: PUBL-0014-TP

Description: Title-page with title and author's name decoratively inscribed around the structure of a pataka. On the left are the palisades of a pa, on the right a carved figure. Below the pataka are a standing Maori woman, a reclining man, two pigs, a food-bowl and the carved stern of a canoe. The man and woman are in full Maori costume with cloaks, feather ornaments and a tiki round the woman's neck. The background scene appears to be a detail from Angas' lithograph of Te Heuheu's pa at Lake Taupo. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) in publication.. Physical Description: Hand-coloured lithograph, 500 x 355 mm

Date: 1930 - 1820 - 1939

From: Goodwin, Arnold Frederick 1890-1978 :[Historical incidents in New Zealand in 1820. Edinburgh? ca 1930]

By: Goodwin, Arnold Frederick, 1890-1978

Reference: A-236-001

Description: Rangitoto Island in the background, with a European sailing ship, watched from the left foreground by two Maori men, both with taiaha, standing near a carved gateway. Picture supplied by courtesy John Walker & Sons, Ltd., Distillers, Kilmarnock. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 211 x 157 mm