[Coates, Isaac] 1808-1878 :E Piko. [1843?]

[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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