IMAGE
[Coates, Isaac] 1808-1878 :E Piko. [1843?]
- Date
- 1842 - 1845
- By
- Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878
- Reference
- A-114-053
- Description
Head and shoulders profile portrait of E Piko, chief of Motueka pa, wearing a kiwi feather cloak
This work inscribed in pencil at top "John? Cleavely" and on verso "James Clevely artist with Captain Cook": these inscriptions appear to be the work of a recent owner, who assumed that the monogram read J. C.
See: Minson, Marian. Art as evidence : the enigma of the Nelson Maori portraits. In: Turnbull Library Record. v.23, no.1, May 1990, p.47-67. Piko was a chief at Motueka and a regular visitor to Nelson in the early 1840s
Other Titles - E Piko, Motueka, Blind Bay, 1843
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; also monogram I. C. inside a circle.
Similar works held by Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass., in a private collection in New Zealand, and by the Library at A-288, with title E Piko, Kafir [Kawhia] chief & at A-114-048, a copy by an artist called R. Hall
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour & ink, 178 x 148 mm (image) on sheet 330 x 240 mm
Provenance: Previously lot 294 at Christie's, London, 10. 6. 1986.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Portraits, Watercolour & ink, 178 x 148 mm (image) on sheet 330 x 240 mm, Orientation: Vertical image
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