IMAGE
Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :Mount Egmont, from the north shore of Cooke's Strait, New Zealand. Natives burning off wood for potato grounds. Lithographed by T. Allom from a drawing by Chas. Heaphy. London, Published for the New Zealand Company by Smith Elder & Co ... printed by C. Hullmandel [1842]
- Date
- 1840 - 1842
- By
- Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; C Hullmandel (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company
- Reference
- C-026-004-b
- Description
Shows 2 small groups of Maori, one on either side of swift-flowing river. Two of group at left sit in front of whare and storehouse on pole controlling small burning, while one stands. At right more figures supervise burn-off, while one man fishes with spear. Flat bush-covered land recedes to Mount Taranaki in background. Tree-ferns at left and right.
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Lithographed by T. Allom, from a Drawing by Chas. Heaphy; Recto - bottom right - Printed by C. Hullmandel.; Recto - beneath image - MOUNT EGMONT, from the North Shore of Cooke's Strait, NEW ZEALAND, / Natives burning off Wood for Potato Grounds. / Published for the New Zealand Company by Smith, Elder & Co. Cornhill, London.
Heaphy accompanied a surveying trip to the Taranaki region in late 1840.
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 380 x 566 mm, on card 450 x 605 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Works of art, Lithographs, Ethnographic illustrations, Lithograph, hand-coloured, 380 x 566 mm, on card 450 x 605 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881. Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :Mount Egmont, from the north shore of Cooke's Strait, New Zealand. Natives burning off wood for potato grounds. Lithographed by T. Allom from a drawing by Chas. Heaphy. London, Published for the New Zealand Company by Smith Elder & Co ... printed by C. Hullmandel [1842]. Ref: C-026-004-b. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22907651More information can be found in our terms of use.