IMAGE
[Heaphy, Charles] 1820-1881 :View of the rocks laying off Point Jackson - North entrance of Queen Charlotte's Sound [Between 1839 and 1844?]
- Date
- 1839 - 1844
- By
- Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company
- Reference
- C-025-021
- Description
Seven strips of coastal profile forming a more or less continous record of the appearance of the west coast of New Zealand from Taranaki south to Queen Charlotte Sound. Part of the view is taken from Entry (i.e. Kapiti) Island
The work seems most likely to have been done in 1839 when Heaphy travelled up the west coast aboard the Tory.
Exhibited: "Drawn from Nature: Europeans record New Zealand 1770 - 1860". National Library Gallery 31 March - 28 May 1989; Treasures in Trust, Auckland Art Gallery, 11 November 1996 to 9 February 1997.
A related series of coastal profiles, also by Heaphy, is held at the office of the Hydrographer of the Navy, Taunton, Somerset, England.
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour 385 x 499 mm
Provenance: Commissioned by the New Zealand Company. Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull from Francis Edwards in London in 1916 with other New Zealand Company material.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Seascapes, Watercolour 385 x 499 mm
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