Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889 :Inside the stockade with natives outside. ca 1850.

Shows a Maori man and woman at the far left, standing outside a whare with carved tekoteko figure. Behind the whare is a palisade and to the far right a waka is being launched into the sea.

This work has also been know as 'Meeting house and stockade'

A third foreground figure has been pencilled in beside the couple at the left, but has not been completed.

This painting was used as the basis for 'Stranger's house (Houraki Pah)', Plate 5 in R A Oliver's 'A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand' (London, Dickinson Bros, 1852)

Title from letter of authentication on backing board (accompanies painting in same folder).

See also B-189-013 by R A Oliver ('Ihawera'), possibly showing the same woman dressed in striped shirt, knotted scarf and red blanket

Other Titles - Meeting house and stockade

Other Titles - Stranger's house (Houraki Pah)

Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - [Title]

Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).

Physical Description: Watercolour 272 x 370 mm (sight)

Provenance: Previously owned by the artist's descendent Mrs Madeleine McClintock and sold to Brian Groshinski. Sold at McArthur's auction to Goodman Fielder in 1984. Passed in at Webb's auction, March 1995, lot 114.