Cockfighting

Date: 1759

From: Hogarth, William 1697-1764 :The original works of William Hogarth. London, sold by John and Josiah Boydell, 1790

Reference: D-020-095

Description: Apart from the pun of cock-pit(t), the print was a clear political comment : the `Cockpit' was the name of a Whitehall building where politicians gathered and a synonym for the Treasury itself. Hogarth shows a blind gambler, tense and still before the pit where two cocks are about to fight. The man on the gambler's left is stealing one of the notes from out of the gambler's upturned hat. Around him the crowd presses and screams, shoves and whistles, but the unmoved central figure deflects the uproar without a tremor. The blind gambler was recognized as Lord Albermarle Bertie, second son of the rich and powerful Duke of Ancaster. The figures in the crowd include a Quaker and a newspaper-seller, a Negro servant and a rich tradesman, a jockey and a hangman (or perhaps his victim, with a gibbet drwan on his back). A French noble taking snuff on the left is balanced by a dandified chimney-sweep on the right, also taking snuff. On each side men yell into each other's ears. On the left and right, the toes of the men who feed and cajole the cocks poke into the mat-covered ring. The print is all about `eyes', with everyone looking quickly, intently, fiercely some way or other - while the artist, and through him his audience, look down on them all, pulled into the circle. Source of descriptive information - Uglow, Jenny. Hogarth, a life & a world. London, 1997 Other Titles - Cock match Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title The scene is set in the Royal Cockpit in Birdcage Walk, St James's, London. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 315 x 385 mm (platemark) on cream wove paper, 482 x 650 mm

Date: 2001

From: Harbour, Kyle, 1968- :Photographs of the New Zealand Army in East Timor

Reference: 35mm-43568-18-F

Description: A prize-winning fighting cock, East Timor Finding Aids: Photocopy of this image is on shelf at PAColl-7641, album 2, image 63.

Date: [ca 1939-1945]

From: Welch, James Kenneth, 1914-1981 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1527

Description: Photographs showing voyage to war. Includes arrival at Scotland, military camp, canoeing on canals, portraits of soldiers, military practice and a shot down military plane. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 125 x 170 mm

Date: 1836

From: Various artists :[Four handcoloured engravings, some from Dumont d'Urvilles' Voyage pittoreque autour du monde (Paris, 1834)]

By: Domeny de Rienzi, Gregoire Louis, 1789-1843

Reference: A-340-039

Description: Shows a group of men beginning a cockfight, in an open area. There are palm trees and houses nearby. The image is from Domeny de Rienzi's "Oceanie". Notes in the text (Volume 1, page 297) suggest that the location is the Philippines. Other Titles - Cockfighting Extended Title - From: Domeny de Rienzi, M. G. "Oceanie". Paris, 1836-63, vol. 1, plate 79. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 100 x 155 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Judy Sears, Wellington, in 2005.

Date: 1849 - 1860

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Winkles, Henry, 1801-1860 -

Reference: A-436-005

Description: Illustrations in three tiers, showing food preparation, cock fighting, a haka and a sword fight. The haka is a New Zealand scene, and shows some cloaked spectators at the right and a carved house behind, with a carved figure (more European than Pacific) at the front of the ridgepole. It is derived from L A de Sainson's lithograph 'Baie Houa-Houa' of a haka on board Dumont d'Urville's ship the Astrolabe in 1827 Numbers, referring to a key (not held) are shown beneath each scene in each row. It is thought that this may be a page from Johann Georg Heck's 'Ikonographische Encyklopedie der Wissenschaften und Kunste. Entworfen und nach den vorzuglichsten Quellen bearbeitet von Johann Georg Heck', Lepzig, ca. 1849/1860. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Steel engraving, 265 x 213 mm, on sheet 296 x 235 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, August 2010.