IMAGE
[Webber, John] 1751-1773 :[The inside of a hippah in New Zealand, 1778-1779. Plate] 69 [Etched by] Fumagalli. [Milan? G. Ferrario, 1827?]
- Date
- 1778 - 1784 - 1827 - 1779 - 1833
- By
- Webber, John, 1751-1793; Fumagalli, Paolo, 1797-1873; Giulio Ferrario (Firm)
- Reference
- A-447-012
- Description
A view inside a pa or kainga with a group of four Maori standing and seated in the foreground, one man leaning on a taiaha. Two further Maori are seated in conversation on the right. They are in an open flat area, surrounded by low dwellings, with part of a palisade in the background. The view is on Cook's 'Hippah Island' with Motuara Island rising behind to the north, in Queen Charlotte Sound
Derived from an engraving after John Webber 'The inside of a hippah in New Zealand' published in Cook, J and J King. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean (London, 1784). The Italian aquatint version is cropped on the right, omitting a further dwelling, fencing and a canoe in the water
Inscriptions: Recto - top right - [printed plate number] 69. [Bottom right beneath image, printed etcher's name] Fumagalli f[ecit]. [Bottom right of sheet, in pencil] Neuseeland
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Aquatint, hand-coloured, 182 x 238 mm (platemark) on sheet 249 x 367 mm
Provenance: Purchase: Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, 21 November 2011
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Works of art, Aquatints, Aquatint, hand-coloured, 182 x 238 mm (platemark) on sheet 249 x 367 mm
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