Places

Date: 1769 - 1833 - 1900 - 1784

By: Owens Group (Firm); Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Barnes, Frank, 1859-1941; Underwood, Frank, active 1899-1915; Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Saint-Aulaire, Felix Achille, 1801-; Crawshaw, Lionel Townsend, 1864-1949

Reference: A-244-142/147-a

Description: Contents: A war canoe of New Zealand, 1773 [sic] / Sydney Parkinson. - S.S. Hinemoa (ca. 1900) / Frank Barnes. - The Constance Craig, Auckland (ca 1900) / Frank Underwood. - The Astrolabe striking a reef in the Bay of Plenty [i.e. La corvette l'Astrolabe tombant tout a coup sur des recifs dans la Baie de l'Abondance], 1833 / Louis A de. Sainson; engraved by F.A. de B. Saint Aulaire. - The Astrolabe in French Pass [ i.e. L'Astrolabe dans la passe des Francais...], 1833 / Louis de Sainson; engraved by F.A. de B. Saint Aulaire. - The Endeavour leaving Whitby for the Thames, 1768 (ca 1930) / Lionel Townsend Crawshaw. Accompanied by looseleaf descriptive commentary; filed with A 244-142/142-a. Set of looseleaf offprints also published as Owens Group calendar, 1981. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - Reproduced by Courtesy of The Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.; Recto - bottom right - [Artist's name] Quantity: 12 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 12 colour photolithographs (2 sets of 6), 203 x 280 mm, on sheets 244 x 313 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright.

Date: 1769

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Klauber, Ignaz Sebastian, 1753-1817; Honkoop (Firm)

Reference: A-111-019-a

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. Library holds Cook's Reizen rondom de waerld at fR910.4/COOK/REIZ 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. 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. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, black and white on paper 196 x 334 mm

Date: 1784

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-111-011-a

Description: A pierced rock in Mercury Bay (not Tolaga Bay as in the title), with a pa on top. Shows Maori in canoes Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway Same as A-111-011 Other Titles - pa Extended Title - From Anderson, G W, ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. Derived from Hawkesworth, J. voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm

Date: 1784

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771

Reference: A-111-011

Description: A pierced rock in Mercury Bay (not Tolaga Bay) with a pa on top. Shows also Maori paddling canoes Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway Same as A-111-011-a Other Titles - Pa Extended Title - From Anderson, G W, ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. Derived from Hawkesworth, J. Voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm

Date: [1980s-1990]

From: Stratford, Peter : Epsom Trust collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11750-52

Description: Drafts, correspondence and other papers. Includes ET/AT 014, a draft article relating to Hongi Hika, ET/AT 015 a draft article relating to toki poutangata adzes, and ET/AT 016 a letter dated 1990 from Garth Cartright relating to Taylor's book `Maori folk art' which also discusses the artist Tony Fomison. Also includes some papers relating to Abe Wharekawa, the Black Power gang, a building project and papers seeking funding for a 1990 project relating to the writing of Maori biographies. Also includes a copy of Maori Rock Drawing: The Theo Schoon Interpretations published by the Robert McDougall Art Gallery (annotated - probably by Alan Taylor) with three black and white prints of the Takiroa Rock Shelter on a piece of cardboard. Also includes two pages of handwritten drafts for an article titled `Nga Atua Maori: Maori Gods' which includes a drawing of a godstick and a picture of rainbow labelled Kahukura, and a draft article relating to Oceanic canoes and Maori waka, including pencil drawings of tauihu and rapa (taurapa). These draft articles were in a hand printed envelope which has `Ms., karakia and whakapapa' written on it. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0 Linear Metres.

Date: 1784 - 1769

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771

Reference: A-111-011-c

Description: A pierced rock in Mercury Bay (not Tolaga Bay) with a pa on top. Shows also Maori paddling canoes Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway Same as A-111-011-a Extended Title - From Anderson, G W ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. Derived from Hawkesworth, J. Voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm

Date: 1769

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Klauber, Ignaz Sebastian, 1753-1817; Honkoop (Firm)

Reference: A-111-019

Description: Shows a 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. Library holds Cook's Reizen rondom de waerld at fR910.4/COOK/REIZ 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. 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. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, black and white on paper 196 x 334 mm

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: 1784 - 1769

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771

Reference: A-111-011-b

Description: A pierced rock in Mercury Bay (not Tolaga Bay) with a pa on top. Shows also Maori paddling canoes Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway Same as A-111-011-a Other Titles - Pa, Mercury Bay Extended Title - From Anderson, G W ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. Derived from Hawkesworth, J. voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm

Date: 1803 - 1769

By: Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Klauber, Ignaz Sebastian, 1753-1817; Honkoop (Firm)

Reference: B-054-036

Description: Shows Te Puta o Paretauhinnu pa, on top of an arched rock, Mercury Bay, 1769 Other Titles - A fortified town or village on a perforated rock in New Zealand Extended Title - Published in: Cook, J Reizen rondom de waereld Pl. 14. Derived from engraving by H D Sporing on Cook's 1st voyage in: Hawkesworth, J. An account of the voyages. London, 1773. Vol. 2, pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w 235 x 187 mm on sheet 168 x 210 mm

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-3/05

Description: Miscellaneous papers including story drafts and summaries of radio interviews conducted in the Waikato/Coromandel regions, and letterhead for the Waihirere Maori Club and Annual Maori Competitions [1960s]. Includes documents relating to place names on the East Coast and Eastern Bay of Plenty that relate to the 14th century waka landings, and an article about Cook's ship The Endeavour. Language - Some Maori content including whakatauki Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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 - 1846

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Pottier de l'Horme, Jean, 1738?-; LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851; Meryon, Charles, 1821-1868

Reference: A-284-075/087

Description: Photographs of paintings and drawings from the Bibliotheque Nationale, the Service Historique de la Marine, the Archives Nationales, Paris, all of early New Zealand subjects - Maori portraits, artifacts, pa, etc, by the artists accompanying de Surville, Dumont D'Urville, Duperrey, Marion du Fresne, etc See catalogue of New Zealand seen by the French for identifiying details. Exhibited in 'New Zealand seen by the French' exhibition curated by Roger Collins and shown at the National Library of New Zealand in 1990. Quantity: 13 photograph(s). Physical Description: 10 black and white photographs, 180 x 240 mm; 3 colour transparencies 130 x 180 mm Transfers: To Photographic Archive - two b& w negatives, assigned numbers C-19436 & 19437..

Date: 1642 - 1695 - 1705

By: Gilsemans, Isaack, 1606?-1646

Reference: A-460-018

Description: Ten seated Maori men rowing a canoe, with one man standing at the prow on the right. The canoe appears to be double-hulled. All the men have topknot hairstyles. Derived from Gilsemans' 'View of Murderers' Bay' from Abel Tasman's journal and shows Maori in Golden Bay at the time of Tasman's attempted landing on 19 December 1642 See also PUBL-0087-173 (Vaertuig en Gedaente der inwoonders van Selandia Nova. p 173 [Amsterdam, 1705], from Witsen, Nicolaes. Noord en Oost Tartarye. Amsterdam, 1705, between p 172 and 173). The images appear to be identical, suggesting the same plate was used for both imprints The engraving has been folded twice to make three sections, but is supported by the album paper to which it is pasted Other Titles - Image of New Zealand natives (translation) Extended Title - From Nederlandsche Reizen tot bevordering van den Koophandel. Amsterdam, 1784-1787. Volume 9. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Copper engraving, 165 x 262 mm (image, border and text), on paper pasted to album paper Provenance: Acquired from Holland by the vendor.

Date: 1809 - 1777

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Boydell & Company

Reference: B-098-015

Description: Shows the ship Resolution's astronomical observation tents, Maori fishing and drying fish, several waka, crew members of the Resolution and Discovery and the two ships standing out to sea in the Queen Charlotte Sound. The location of the scene is Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte Sound. The events depicted occurred in February 1777, during Captain Cook's third voyage to New Zealand Originally published in: Webber, J. Views in the South Seas. Pl.1. A version in greys and sepias, a soft-ground etching, is bound into fREng / COOK / Voyage / 1784a / Copy / Atlas p. 70l, spine title Cook Views in the South Seas, reference Joppien and Smith, 3.21A a. The reference for the hand-coloured aquatint is Joppien and Smith, 3.21A b After a sketch made on Cook's 3rd voyage, worked up as an oil painting. The painting, now in Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand, was previously in the Bishop Suter Art Gallery, Nelson. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, hand-coloured, 330 x 452 mm, on sheet 400 x 530 mm

Date: 1839 - 1769

From: Dumont d'Urville, Jean Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842 :Voyage pittoresque autour du monde et resume generale des descouvertes. Paris, Furne et Cie, 1839.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771

Reference: PUBL-0034-2-366

Description: A large war canoe, with many men rowing, several standing. A European vessel is in the background to the left, behind the canoe and a headland is also visible. Derived from Sydney Parkinson's engraving, from Cook's first voyage to New Zealand in 1769, of 'War canoe of New Zealand, with a view of Gable End Foreland' from An Account of the voyages ... for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere ... By John Hawkesworth. (London, 1773), vol 3, Pl. 16, opp. p. 463. Parkinson's engraving lacks the European vessel. Other Titles - War canoe of New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 117 x 200 mm

Date: 1769 - 1784

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771

Reference: B-098-025

Description: Shows Europeans at left and Maori at right, paddling two canoes in the foreground, with the arched rock behind. Some canoes are drawn up on the steep back at the right beyond the rock. Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway (see plates in Bernard Smith and Beaglehole). Same as A-111-011-a Extended Title - From Anderson, G W ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. In Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm

Date: 1769 - 1784

From: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771 :A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's ship, 'The Endeavour'. Faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Parkinson. London; Printed for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, and James Phillips, in the George-Yard, 1784.

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Newton, J, active 1784; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771

Reference: PUBL-0037-24

Description: The arched rock at Mercury Bay, with a small canoe with a sail beneath it and the Endeavour at anchor to the right beyond the rock. The palisades and some buildings of the pa (Te Puta o te Paretauhinu) on top of the rock, with a figure to the right waving a cloth. Canoes pulled up on the lower reaches of the rock. The rock has subsequently collapsed. Parkinson was the artist on Captain Cook's voyage to New Zealand in 1769. Other Titles - Pa Based on a wash drawing now in the British Library by Herman Diedrich Sporing, presumably copied by Parkinson. John Hawkesworth's version (in his Voyages..., London, 1773) of this view reverses the rock, adds a kangaroo and a war canoe. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 225 x 270 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: 1642 - 1705

From: Witsen, Nicolaes Cornesliszoon, 1641-1717 :Noord en Oost Tartarye ... (Tweede druk). Amsterdam, Francois Halma, 1705.

By: Gilsemans, Isaack, 1606?-1646

Reference: qR910-WITS-Noord-1705-Acc.1311-p.173

Description: Ten seated Maori men rowing a canoe, with one man standing at the prow on the right. The canoe appears to be double-hulled. All the men have topknot hairstyles. Derived from Gilsemans' 'View of Murderers' Bay' from Abel Tasman's journal and shows Maori in Golden Bay at the time of Tasman's attempted landing on 19 December 1642. See also A-460-018 (Afbeelding van de inwooneren van Niew Zeeland. [ca 1700]). The images appear to be identical, suggesting the same plate was used for both imprints Other Titles - Natives of New Zealand Extended Title - From Witsen, Nicolaes. Noord en Oost Tartarye. Amsterdam, 1705, between p. 172 and 173. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 315 x 190 mm