Sainson, Louis Auguste de, b 1801 :[View of the home of the English missionaries at Paihia, Bay of Islands, March 1827. Postcard]. Wellington, National Library of new Zealand, 1991

Reproduction of a watercolour by Louis-Auguste de Sainson. A view from a hill to the south of Paihia, looking north along the beach line, with the houses and gardens of the Church Missionary Society station, home of the Rev. Henry Williams and his family. Two European men and a small boy are standing on the hill in the foreground beside a tree. The artist visited the site in March 1827.

A pencil drawing by Sainson of this view, dated 12 March 1827, is in the Archives Nationales, Paris, (Marine JJ 102 A f 14); and the original watercolour is in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. There are also later engraved versions of the same view, one in Dumont d'Urville's 'Voyage pittoresque autour du monde', Paris, 1835, Vol 2, p. 356 and one in Domeny de Rienzi's 'Oceanie' Vol 2, Paris 1836, plate 174. Each of these later versions shows signficant changes in the detail.

Other Titles - Etablissement des missionaires (Nouvelle Zelande)

Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, on card 105 x 150 mm