IMAGE
[Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :On the Waikato at Kopou. Travelling party with their canoes halting to cook their midday meal. 30 Sept. 1844
- Date
- 1844
- By
- Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961
- Reference
- A-196-021
- Description
A flat area alongside the river with tall trees (including cabbage trees) in the background, flax to the right. Two or three thatched houses with groups seated and standing outside and a larger group in or alongside canoes drawn up at the river's edge to the left. Another group seated around a fire.
Related copies: Original for the lithograph by J W Giles in Angas, 'Savage Life and Scenes in Aust. and N.Z.' (London, 1847), Vol. II p.28. The lithograph has the title On the Waikato at Kapou. Kopou (or Kapou) are no longer names in use, but Angas is known to have been travelling along the Waikato from near modern Mercer on 28 September and to have reached the area near Lake Waikare and the small Lake Kopuera at Rangiriri by 2 October. The area shown is likely to be close to Lake Kopuera and Rangiriri.
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour 153 x 220 mm
Provenance: Previously in the collection of Captain A W F Fuller, London.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour 153 x 220 mm
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