Women, Rapanui

Date: 1803

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Klauber, Ignaz Sebastian, 1753-1817; Honkoop (Firm); Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: B-054-031

Description: A head and shoulders frontal portrait of a Polynesian woman of Easter Island. She wears a pointed hat, a large shell around her neck and a draped garment. Her ear-lobes are elongated and contain large holes Other Titles - Woman of Easter Island [translation] Extended Title - Published in: Cook, J Reizen rondom de waereld Pl. 40. Derived from engraving by Caldwell after Hodges on Cook's 2nd voyage in: Cook, J. A voyage towards the South Pole. London 1777 Pl. 25 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 223 x 143 mm on sheet 238 x 147 mm ; partly trimmed inside plate marks

Date: 1776

From: Hodges, William, 1728-1779 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's second voyage. W Hodges delt; sculp. by various hands] - London, 1776-1777

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Caldwall, James, 1739-1789

Reference: C-051-012

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of a woman of Rapanui, Easter Island From a drawing on Cook's 2nd voyage, now in National Library of Australia Extended Title - Published in: Cook, J. A voyage towards the South Pole. London, 1777. Pl. 25. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, 258 x 191 mm on sheet 540 x 480 mm

Date: 1778 - 1780

By: Samuel, Richard, active 1770-1786; Page, active 1812

Reference: A-119-003

Description: Shows the (supposed) costumes and customs of Pacific Islanders. Includes trees, a canoe, a fortified village, a floating ice island, a kangaroo and a European sailing vessel in the sea in the background. Most figures are derived from the illustrations to Cook's voyages, and the whole image appears to have been copied and rearranged by the French wallpaper-maker Joseph Dufour who produced his panoramic wallpaper 'Les sauvages de la Mer Pacific' (The natives of the Pacific Ocean) in about 1807 or 1808. The setting is nominally Tahiti, but the peoples depicted come from (from the left) Easter Island, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Australia, Tahiti, the Marquesas, and Tonga. A New Zealand pa is in the background atop a hill to the right and an ice-floe is in the distance beyond the ship. See 'An inside story - Dufour and Charvet's wallpaper of the South Seas' by Roger Collins in: Bulletin of New Zealand Art History, Vol 9, p. 5-13 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 152 x 279 mm

Date: 1769 - 1779

From: Artist unknown :[South Seas views from Galleria universale di tutti i popoli del mondo. Venezia, Antonelli, 1841]

Reference: A-119-048

Description: Plate 80, volume 3 of an illustrated Italian publication. An upper plate showing on the left, a Tahitian woman dancing, after views by Parkinson and Webber from Cook's 1st and 3rd voyages; a central standing man either from Fiji or the Cook Islands; on the right, another standing man from the Cook Islands. The lower plate shows two women and a man from Easter Island, with a hut in the background and a low table with figurines to the right. One of the women is weaving Other Titles - Dancer of Tahiti. Savage of Atiu, Cook Islands or Vatia, Fiji. Man of Mangea. Inhabitants of Easter Island Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Two hand-coloured lithographs on one sheet, 296 x 201 mm

Date: 1790 - 1799

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797

Reference: A-111-056-a

Description: Head and shoulders portraits, drawn on Cook's second circumnavigation Same as A-111-056 Extended Title - Published in: Anderson, G W, A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world [Anr. ed.] Pl. 30. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) (2 ill.). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, 220 x 346 mm on sheet 228 x 383 mm

Date: 1790 - 1799

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797

Reference: A-111-056

Description: Head and shoulders portraits, drawn on Cook's second circumnavigation Same as A-111-056-a Extended Title - Published in: Anderson, G W, A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world [Anr. ed.] Pl. 30. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) (2 ill.). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, 220 x 346 mm on sheet 228 x 383 mm

Date: 1796

By: Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810; Laroque, J, active 1796

Reference: A-452-008

Description: Shows an Easter Island woman carrying a basket of fish, with a young boy holding her hand. The boy carries a small club. The woman wears a kind of top and skirt, and is adorned with elaborate head-dress, necklace and arm bands Other Titles - Woman from Easter Island [translation] Other Titles - Paques Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured etching, image 178 x 117 mm, plate 215 x 147 mm, on sheet 247 x 178 mm

Date: 1799 - 1820

By: Bottigla, C, active 1800s

Reference: A-211-012

Description: Shows French explorers viewing Easter Island statues, observed by local people seated to the left. Derived from Godfrey de Vancy's engraving 'Insulaires at monumens de l'Ile de Paque' published in Voyage de La Perouse. Atlas No. II. (London, 1799) Title from pencil inscription Background details show considerable variation from the engraving from which this view has been copied, particularly in the landscape Other Titles - Easter Island [translation] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C. Bottigla F(ecit). Also inscribed in pencil below work, Isola di Pasqua Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint (hand-coloured), 194 x 280 mm on sheet 252 x 360 mm

Date: 1774 - 1777 - 1810 - 1830

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Ellis, William Wade, 1751-1785; Bottigelli, Carlo, active 1800-1820?; Hill, Julian, active 1996-2009

Reference: A-054-014

Description: Two images, the upper one showing a man and woman, after William Hodges drawings of 1774. The pair are wearing headdresses and have empty earlobes stretched by wearing ear ornaments. The lower image is from a sketch by William Ellis showing two figures paddling a canoe with a small outrigger. From an unknown Italian publication. Biasioli (1790-1830) was one of the etchers. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Carlo Botticelli ft.; Recto - top right - 88 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Handpainted aquatint 200 x 165 mm; plate 225 x 185 mm on loose page, 340 x 240 mm. Provenance: Purchased by the vendor from a dealer in Washington DC.