IMAGE
[Sporing, Herman Diedrich], 1733-1771 :[A fortified town or village called an hippah built on a perforated rock. 1810-1830]. [Plate no] 66.
- Date
- 1769 - 1810 - 1830
- By
- Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Castellini, G, active 1780-1800; Hill, Julian, active 1996-2009
- Reference
- A-054-011
- Description
Aquatint based on a drawing of Te Puta o te Paretauhinau Pa at Mercury Bay, Coromandel Peninsula. 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 long war canoe in the left foreground; an arched rock in the water behind the boat 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.
From an unknown Italian publication. One of the engravers of this publication was Biasioli (1790-1830).
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 1.142 for the original drawing of the Maori canoe.
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - G Castellini inc
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Handcoloured aquatint, plate 190 x 230 mm on loose page, 240 x 340 mm.
Provenance: Purchased by the vendor from a dealer in Washington DC.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Works of art, Aquatints, Watercolours, Ethnographic illustrations, Handcoloured aquatint, plate 190 x 230 mm on loose page, 240 x 340 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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