IMAGE
[Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :Hongihongi / H W K [lith]. [Wellington, ca 1890]
- Date
- 1844 - 1888 - 1891
- By
- Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Kirkwood, Henry William, 1854-1925
- Reference
- B-110-021-1
- Description
Shows full-length figure of Hongi Hongi (a.k.a. Nga Toki), wearing mats or blankets, a greenstone earring, and holding a greenstone mere in his right hand. He stands before the posts of the pa enclosure at Ngahuruhuru Pa, four miles from Otawhao.
Angas visited New Zealand in 1844. This is a redrawing of his lithograph Hongi Hongi, plate 11 in his The New Zealanders illustrated (London, 1847). The copyist is probably H. W. Kirkwood
One of four lithographs on one sheet, all copies of work by Angas and probably all copied by Kirkwood. The centre of the sheet is inscribed in blue pencil 'Printed 2500 copies'
Other Titles - Hongi Hongi
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Lithograph, 216 x 145 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890 / Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890
- Format
- 1 b&w art print(s), Works of art, Lithographs, Ethnographic illustrations, Portraits, Lithograph, 216 x 145 mm, Orientation: Vertical image
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