IMAGE
Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :Mt Cook, Greenstone country, Middle Id. [1846]
- Date
- 1846
- By
- Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881
- Reference
- A-144-013
- Description
Coastline of Arahura district, Westland, looking south with Mount Cook in the distance and a sailing ship offshore, near the mouth of the Taramakau River. Possibly the earliest view of this coastline and Mount Cook from the land.
Similar images are held by the British Library, in a private collection in Basel and reproduced in Hochstetter's New Zealand (Stuttgart, 1867).
Middle Island was an earlier name for New Zealand's South Island.
Dates from Heaphy's five-month long exploration from Nelson to the West Coast near Hokitika, in company with William Fox, Thomas Brunner and Kehu, March-August 1846. They were the first Pakeha to visit the Poutini Ngai Tahu settlements in Westland and to establish Mount Cook as New Zealand's highest mountain.
Other Titles - Arahura Coast and Mount Cook from the mouth of the Taramakau River
Other Titles - Kaikoura Coast [Incorrect title in auction catalogue, 1991]
Other Titles - South Island
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Chas Heaphy. Title (barely legible)
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour with Chinese white and scraping out on tinted paper, image 140 x 225 mm on sheet 176 x 268 mm
Provenance: Previously held in a private collection
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Landscapes (Representations), Pencil and watercolour with Chinese white and scraping out on tinted paper, image 140 x 225 mm on sheet 176 x 268 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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