IMAGE
Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 :Mt Egmont, from the Sugar Loaf Islands, Taranake 1849
- Date
- 1839 - 1849
- By
- Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Wynyard, Robert Henry (Sir), 1802-1864; Groshinski, Brian Peter, 1944-
- Reference
- A-145-011
- Description
A view from the sea, showing a three-masted barque, possibly intended to represent the Tory, in the left foreground. The Sugar Loaf Islands and volcanic peak Paritutu in right foreground. Mount Egmont and foothills in the background.
Mount Egmont or Taranaki is represented rather more accurately in this view, than in Heaphy's Mount Egmont from the Southward, where its cone is depicted with too great a perfection.
Possibly an imaginative reconstruction by the artist of his voyage aboard the Tory past Mt Taranaki in 1839 or 1840.
Other Titles - Taranaki
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C. HEAPHY 1849 [in ink]; Recto - beneath image - title
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white with scraping out 144 x 183 mm on embossed sheet of wove card, 236 x 284 mm
Provenance: Collection of Major-General R. H Wynyard, commander of the 58th Regiment in Northland 1845-1846, and resident in Auckland 1847-1858; passed to his descendants and purchased from them in the early 1970s by Wellington art dealer Brian Groshinski; purchased by Mr B. L. Russell of Lower Hutt, 1979.
Processing information: Name field updated May 2024 following information from a researcher. Previously included the name for the ship 'Tory".
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour and Chinese white with scraping out 144 x 183 mm on embossed sheet of wove card, 236 x 284 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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