IMAGE
[Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :Pa at Tau-Piri, Waikato [Wellington, ca 1890]
- Date
- 1844 - 1888 - 1891
- By
- Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Kirkwood, Henry William, 1854-1925
- Reference
- B-110-021-3
- Description
The interior of Te Wherowhero's pa, with Taupiri mountain rising in the background. There is a row of houses to the left, some with palisades around them, groups of people seated in the centre, and other buildings, including pataka, on the right
Angas visited New Zealand in 1844. This is a redrawing of his lithograph 'Tu Kaitote ...' plate 15 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 - Tu Kaitote, the pah of Te Wherowhero on the Waikato, Taupiri Mountain in the distance
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: Horizontal image
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