IMAGE
[Coates, Isaac] 1808-1878 :Potie. Port Nicholson. [Mistress of W.H.Wright, merchant of Nelson. 1842 or 1843?]
- Date
- 1842 - 1843
- By
- Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878
- Reference
- A-286-017
- Description
Head and shoulders profile portrait of a Maori woman in European clothes, wife of William Wright, licence holder of the Nelson Hotel, 1842-1846
See: Minson, Marian. Art as evidence : the enigma of the Nelson Maori portraits. In: Turnbull Library record, v.23, no.1, May 1990, p.47-67 for further information.
Potie and William Wright moved to Nelson in 1842, after living in Wellington. A likely date for this portrait, given that it was drawn in Wellington, is 1842
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title
cf almost identical portrait in Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass, bearing the additional title information about Potie's relationship to W.H.Wright
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 257 x 192 mm
Provenance: Part of a house sale in Boston, purchased by New York dealer, then by Auckland dealer.
Transfers: One of 19 portraits (A-286-1 to 19).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Portraits, Watercolour & gum arabic 257 x 192 mm, Orientation: Vertical image
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