IMAGE
Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :Pelorus Jack [ca 1957].
- Date
- 1895 - 1956 - 1912 - 1957
- Reference
- B-140-015
- Description
Six-panelled account of the popularity of dolphin Pelorus Jack in Pelorus Sound in the 1890s (until 1912) and of the dolphin Opo at Opononi in Northland in 1956.
These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore.
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm.
Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jenny Gibbs, of Auckland, in 1995.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s]. / Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Conjectural works, Cartoons (Commentary), Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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