IMAGE
[Downes, Thomas William] 1868-1938 :Canoe with two topsides on Whanganui River [1840s. 1914?]
- Date
- 1845 - 1847
- By
- Gilfillan, John Alexander, 1793-1863; Downes, Thomas William, 1868-1938; Bathgate, Charles McLelland, 1893-1970
- Reference
- A-036-001
- Description
A copy of a drawing by John Alexander Gilfillan, dating from the mid-1840s, showing a settlement beside the Whanganui River, with several low whare, a picket fence, a niu pole and a large canoe at the water's edge. The canoe has a mast and furled sail and carved prow and stern. There are several people on the boat and on the shore and pigs near the water's edge. A small dugout canoe is drawn up beside the larger canoe.
Used by Downes as an illustration for his book 'Old Whanganui' (Hawera, 1915)
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash over pencil, 254 x 351 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Wash drawings, Portraits, Sepia ink and wash over pencil, 254 x 351 mm
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