Places

Date: 1777

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Strahan, William, 1715-1785; Cadell, Thomas, 1742-1802

Reference: A-464-019

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of a Maori woman with short hair and a red cloak wrapped around her shoulders. She also wears a red-coloured drop earing, probably meant to be greenstone After a red chalk drawing on Cook's 2nd voyage, now in National Library of Australia, reference number R-740. The original drawing was exhibited in 'Encounter with Eden, New Zealand, 1770-1870' a touring exhibition in New Zealand, 1990-1992; item 2 in the catalogue This likeness was taken some time between 18 May and 7 June 1773 while the Resolution was at Ship Cove. Anders Sparrman recorded: "It was in such a buggi-buggi [paki-paki or cloak?] that the New Zealand woman was portrayed by the masterly hand of Mr Hodges, our painter. I must confess, however, that he did not choose the most beautiful model as an example of this country's female physiognomy, for the likeness of younger and fairer women is not so easy to depict, yet neither was this one of the ugliest. Language difficulties at first gave rise to a misunderstanding between the girl and the painter, for she, having been paid well to go down into the saloon, imagined that she ought to give satisfaction in the way she understood it, as soon as possible in return for our gift; perhaps she had had previous experience with our sailors? She was astonished when signs were made for her to sit on a chair; such a novel way of doing things struck her as absurd, but she promptly volunteered a prone position on the chair for the painter and his companion. To her further surprise she was eventually put in a correct position, just sitting on the chair with nothing to do; whereupon, to the wonderment and entertainment of herself and the two savages with her, she quickly saw her likeness, appearing in a red crayon drawing." (Sparrman, 1944, p. 56-57) Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage towards the South Pole. (London, Strahan & Cadell, 1777), Pl.58 The Library holds other versions of this likeness (a black and white example being at C-051-027) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 225 x 175 on laid paper 285 x 190 mm (plate mark)

Date: 1777

By: Dunbar Sloane Ltd; Michel, Jean Baptiste, 1748-1804; Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Strahan, William, 1715-1785; Cadell, Thomas, 1742-1802

Reference: A-464-020

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Tuanui, (also known as Rangituanui), principal chief of Ngati Hikatoa. He is bearded, and shown with four multi-coloured feathers in his hair (probably meant to be huia feathers), albatross feather earrings, moko and a bone toggle fastening his cloak After a red chalk drawing on Cook's 2nd voyage, now in National Library of Australia, reference number R-747. The original drawing was exhibited in 'Encounter with Eden, New Zealand, 1770-1870' a touring exhibition in New Zealand, 1990-1992; item 1 in the catalogue This likeness was taken aboard the Resolution in the Cape Kidnappers area on 22 October 1773. Tuanui was the recipient of two sows and two boars, from which the wild pigs known as 'Captain Cookers' are descended. The engraved image is a reversal of the original red chalk drawing Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage towards the South Pole. (London, Strahan & Cadell, 1777), Pl.55 The Library holds other versions of this likeness (a black and white example being at C-051-026) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 230 x 180 on laid paper 290 x 235 mm (plate mark cropped)

Date: 1778 - 1784 - 1779

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Pouncy, Benjamin Thomas, -1799

Reference: B-098-011

Description: The open marae area of a pa, with low houses around the edge of the area, a brushwood palisade and the sea and hills beyond. In the foreground are two groups of Maori, one including a man leaning on a spear with others seated at his feet, the other with two men or women seated. The foreground area with the pa is thought to be Cook's 'Hippah Island', a now unnamed islet just south of Motuara Island in Queen Charlotte Sound, looking north, with the steep sides of Motuara Island rising beyond the pa. Exhibitied in 'Drawn From Nature: Europeans Record New Zealand, 1770-1860' exhibition at the National Library Gallery, 31 March to 28 May 1989. Extended Title - From: Cook, James. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. (London, 1784). Vol 1, plate 10. This version (in the correct orientation) is based on a pen and wash drawing in the British Library (Add. MS 15513, f. 6). There is also a watercolour version (closer to the engraving, but produced later by Webber probably in preparation for engraving)in the Dixson Library, Sydney (PXX 2, 2). See also A-111-008 for a reversed version of this view from G. W. Anderson's 'A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...' (London, 1784); also B-098-023 for the same, hand-coloured. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 152 x 404 mm on sheet 325 x 474 mm

Date: 1784

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Rennoldson, active 1760

Reference: B-098-023

Description: Shows a group of four Maori in the centre foreground outside a pa. Two other figures talk together on the ground to the left. Some whare constructed of reeds are seen behind them, on ground that slopes away to the lake or inlet in the background. There is a hill in the centre distance. See Joppien and Smith, volume 3, page 18, which suggests that the pa shown is probably the fortified village on the island of Motuara, visited by Cook on 15 February and by Anderson on 20 February. It was visited by Cook on his first voyage, and Furneaus had established his winter quarters there on the second voyage when it was also used as William Bayly's observatory. Between the second and third voyage, the pa had been rebuilt but was again deserted. This gave Webber an opportunity to sketch it from the inside. Derived from an engraving by B T Pouncy. (In: A voyage... [by Cook and King] 1784, v.1, pl. 10. Not bound but issued separately as Plates to Cook's Third Voyage, [p.7] This in turn is from a drawing by James Webber made on Cook's third voyage. (see Beaglehole's Cook, v. 3, pt. 1, pl. 14) Same as A-111-008 Other Titles - Inside of a pa Extended Title - From Anderson, G W, ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages... London: A Hogg, [1784] op. p.53 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 200 x 327 mm.

Date: 1769

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Klauber, Ignaz Sebastian, 1753-1817; Honkoop (Firm); Muldoon, Thea Dale (Dame), 1927-2015

Reference: A-293-001

Description: Shows long Maori war canoe with carved stern and prow, being rowed by about 30 men, with several men standing. Two further canoes with sails in the left background. Gable end Foreland, (near Gisborne) is the headland in the centre background. Based on a drawing by Sydney Parkinson, artist on Cook's first voyage. The Endeavour visited this area in October 1869. The original drawing on which this engraving is based is in the British Library. This engraving is a Dutch re-engraving after the engraving in Hawkesworth's Voyages, published 1773, vol. 3, pl. 16. Other Titles - War canoe of New Zealand. Voyages around the world. Extended Title - From: Cook, James. Reizen rondom de waerld. Leyden: Honkoop, 1803, plate 17. Library holds Cook's Reizen rondom de waerld at fR910.4/COOK/REIZ Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, black and white on paper trimmed to plate-marks 196 x 334 mm on sheet 228 x 354 mm Provenance: Probable donation to Prime Minister, Sir Robert Muldoon by a Dutch V.I.P.