Lejeune, Jules Louis, fl 1804-1851 :N[ouvel]le Zelande. Habitans et pirogue. N[umer]o 45. [Copied 1825 or 1826 by Antoine Chazal from an 1824 drawing by Jules Louis LeJeune]

View from the water of a Maori canoe with fifteen Maori on board. Two men are rowing and two other people are holding oars; one a man in European clothes (Tuai) standing near the prow of the waka on the left, the other a woman with a child strapped to her back, standing at the stern on the right. In the background across the water is the steep site of Kahuwera Pa, on the southern shore of the Bay of Islands. Kahuwera Pa was viewed by Duperrey and his crew on 9 April 1824

Based on a watercolour drawing by Jules LeJeune, artist with Duperrey during his 1824 visit to the Bay of Islands. The original drawing has the same number of people aboard, but differently arranged. The details of the canoe are quite different. There are many more buildings shown at Kahouwera Pa in the original than in the copy. The original drawing is in the Bibliotheque du Service Historique de la Marine, Vincennes, Paris. The Library has a photograph, neg 75610 1/2. The title of the original is Habitants de la N.lle Zelande, avec une vue de leur place fortifiee ou Hippah - 10 avril 1824.

Chazal's copy was prepared for the aquatint illustration with the title Pirogue des habitants de la Nouvelle Zealande, plate 45, to Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... (Paris, 1826). The Library has a copy of the aquatint, uncoloured, at C-082-099.

Tuai is identifiable from other named Lejeune drawings of him during this visit.

Other Titles - New Zealand. Inhabitants and canoe. Habitants de la Nlle Zealande, avec une vue de leur place fortifiee ou Hippah. 10 Avril 1824.

Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - A. Chazal.; Recto - Title printed in ink both above and below the image. No. 45 in pencil upper right.

Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).

Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 127 x 195 mm (image) on sheet 247 x 370 mm