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Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889 :Inside the stockade with natives outside. ca 1850.
Date: 1848 - 1850
By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889
Reference: B-089-001
Description: Shows a Maori man and woman at the far left, standing outside a whare with carved tekoteko figure. Behind the whare is a palisade and to the far right a waka is being launched into the sea. This work has also been know as 'Meeting house and stockade' A third foreground figure has been pencilled in beside the couple at the left, but has not been completed. This painting was used as the basis for 'Stranger's house (Houraki Pah)', Plate 5 in R A Oliver's 'A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand' (London, Dickinson Bros, 1852) Title from letter of authentication on backing board (accompanies painting in same folder). See also B-189-013 by R A Oliver ('Ihawera'), possibly showing the same woman dressed in striped shirt, knotted scarf and red blanket Other Titles - Meeting house and stockade Other Titles - Stranger's house (Houraki Pah) Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 272 x 370 mm (sight) Provenance: Previously owned by the artist's descendent Mrs Madeleine McClintock and sold to Brian Groshinski. Sold at McArthur's auction to Goodman Fielder in 1984. Passed in at Webb's auction, March 1995, lot 114.
[Tempsky, Gustavus Ferdinand von] 1828-1868 :[View of Thames? with earthworks of a pa a...
Date: 1864 - 1868
By: Tempsky, Gustavus Ferdinand von, 1828-1868; Kettle, Ferdinand von Tempsky, 1883-1951; Hawke's Bay Art Gallery and Museum
Reference: A-159-046
Description: Standing Maori man in foreground with pointed musket, beside seated Maori woman, cabbage tree on left, on hill with pa earthwork fortifications, looking down towards coastal scene with European settlement and ships in harbour in the distance. Possibly drawn while von Tempsky was prospecting for gold in the Coromandel in early 1867, although scene appears to depict events of the New Zealand wars. Previously described as [New Zealand scene] in: Young, Rose. G.F.Von Tempsky: artist and adventurer. (Martinborough, Alister Taylor, 1981) cat. no. 103 Exhibited in touring exhibition organised by Waikato Museum of Art & History in 1978: Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky: the man and the artist. cat. no. 93. Other Titles - [New Zealand scene] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour 182 x 290 mm Provenance: Owned by the artist's descendant F. Von Tempsky Kettle; on long-term loan to Hawkes Bay Art Gallery & Museum, 1970s and 1980s