Places

Date: 1846

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: C-013-007

Description: In the left foreground is a group of Maori and with two canoes on a beach with golden sands, possibly near the mouth of a stream. To the right is an arched rock and another unusual rock formation, with two women gathering shells. Bush-clad hills behind to the right and sea and the distant hills of Nelson to the left. Other Titles - Kaiteriteri Golden Bay Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - title in pencil; Verso - May be numbered 220, New Zealand Company number In 1846, Fox was the New Zealand Company Agent in Nelson Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 510 x 1270 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull as part of the New Zealand Company collection in London in 1915.

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: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

Reference: E-334-087

Description: Top left: Portrait of a Maori woman with shoulder length hair, possibly, Mary Haberfield. She wears European clothing. Behind her are hooks and shelves holding an iron, cups, a jug and other utensils. On right: a map showing coastline, a wide river and several streams coming from a forested area, probably at or near Otepopo Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 31; Recto - beneath image - Otepopo Quantity: 2 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1825 - 1835

Reference: A-259-037

Description: A pastiche, or composite picture. Shows (contrary to the title information) a Maori man, woman and naked child in the foreground. The woman wears only a loincloth, and carries a bowl on her head, steadying it with her left hand. She has some sparse tattooing on her chest. She resembles portraits of female figures from the Caroline Islands as drawn by Lejeune and Chazal. The Maori man wears a full-length cloak and tunic, holds a ritual adze, and has a mere suspended from his belt. He wears the moko and his hair is in the style drawn by Lejeune for profile portraits of Maori men. In the left background is the arched rock of Mercury Bay as drawn originally by Sydney Parkinson. The child, resembling a romping putto, is seen from the rear. In the right background behind the woman, a group of figures stand in a canoe which is modelled on Lejeune and Chazal's engraving ["Pirogue des habitants de la Nouvelle-Zelande"], Plate 45 in Duperrey's "Voyage autout du monde sur la corvette La Coquille ..." (Paris, 1826). Presumably disbound from a French popular publication about South Sea voyages, of the same type as Domeny de Rienzi's "Oceanie" (1835-36). Other Titles - Women of New Zealand Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 99 x 155 mm, on sheet.