Places

Date: 1769 - 1773

By: Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Strahan & Company

Reference: B-085-010

Description: Engraving from the official account of Cook's first voyage, based on a drawing of Te Puta o te Paretauhinau Pa at Mercury Bay, Coromandel Peninsula (not Tolaga Bay as claimed in the title). 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 boat from the Endeavour being rowed in the left foreground; a small canoe with five Maori engaged in fishing in the right foreground; an arched rock in the water behind the boats 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. Exhibitied in 'Drawn From Nature: Europeans Record New Zealand, 1770-1860' exhibition at the National Library Gallery, 31 March to 28 May 1989. Other Titles - Mercury Bay Extended Title - From: Hawkesworth, J. An account of the voyages for making discoveries ... Vol. 2 Plate 18. 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 1.132 for the original drawing of the Maori canoe. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 238 x 270 mm

Date: 1769 - 1773

By: Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Wilson, Irene, active 1923-1974

Reference: A-111-012

Description: Engraving from Cook's first voyage, based on a drawing of Te Puta o te Paretauhinau Pa at Mercury Bay, Coromandel Peninsula (not Tolaga Bay as claimed in the title). 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 small canoe with five Maori engaged in fishing in the right foreground; an arched rock in the water behind the boats 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. In the distance on the left is a canoe with a lateen sail. Derived from the engraving in John Hawkesworth, Voyages, Vol. 2, pl. 18 (London, 1773). 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 1.132 for the original drawing of the Maori canoe. Other Titles - Mercury Bay, Pa Extended Title - From: Pinkerton, John. A general collection of voyages and travels in all parts of the world... Vol. 11, p. 529. London, Longman Hurst Rees, Orme & Browne, 1812. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 132 x 198 mm (image) on sheet 204 x 267 mm

Date: 1769 - 1780 - 1773 - 1790

From: Artist unknown :Views in the South Seas [1769-1779. Drawn 1780s?]

Reference: E-329-f-006

Description: Copy of an engraving published in John Hawkesworth (1773, II, Plate 18)) after Spoering 'A fortified town or village...' from Captain James Cook's first voyage to New Zealand in 1769. Shows a Te Puta o te Paretauhinu Pa atop a pierced rock at Mercury Bay, with two canoes in front, two further empty canoes pulled up on rocks to the right, and the Endeavour at anchor to the left. Verso shows handwritten text in Dutch (translation of this text in accompanying typescript). There is some variation in the details between this and the engraved version. The scene is at Mercury Bay, not Tolaga Bay Other Titles - A view of a fortified village built on a pierced rock in New Zealand [translation]. A fortified town or village called a hippah, built on a perforated rock at Tolaga in New Zealand. Mercury Bay Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink. Also verso covered in text in Dutch describing the scene Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and holograph in album 272 x 430 mm

Date: 1769 - 1773

By: Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Strahan & Company

Reference: B-098-012

Description: Engraving from the official account of Cook's first voyage, based on a drawing of Te Puta o te Paretauhinau Pa at Mercury Bay, Coromandel Peninsula (not Tolaga Bay as claimed in the title). 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 boat from the Endeavour being rowed in the left foreground; a small canoe with five Maori engaged in fishing in the right foreground; an arched rock in the water behind the boats 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. 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 1.132 for the original drawing of the Maori canoe. Other Titles - Mercury Bay Extended Title - From: Hawkesworth, J. An account of the voyages for making discoveries ... Vol. 2 Plate 18. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured 238 x 270 mm