Children, Tahitian

Date: 1855

From: Pottier, H J A fl 1855 :Souvenirs de Taiti. [Album. 1854-56].

By: Pottier, H J A, active 1855; Sergent, (Monsieur), active 1900s?

Reference: E-548-013-1

Description: Shows interior of hut, with four Tahitians kneeling around a large bowl, three demonstrating by pointing to their mouths as naked child offers small bowl to the fourth man. A [French?] sailor holds the hand of a Tahitian woman who offers him a bowl. Other Titles - Inside a hut / interior of a house, 19 September 1855 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - H. Pottier / le 19 septembre / 1855[?] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink on paper 100 x 148 mm, stuck to page 273 x 215 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Hordern House Rare Books Pty Ltd., in 1996.

Date: 1778 - 1780

By: Rooker, Edward, 1712?-1774

Reference: B-195-013

Description: A scene showing single- and double-hulled canoes on the water, fishing. The canoe in the foreground has two men rowing, a boy with a net and a dog sitting high at the stern of the boat, and two other men towards the front, one standing. There is a rooster perched on the outrigger. In front of the canoe, a lone man paddles a raft, with a small cargo of what could be coconuts. To the right of him, two fishing birds can be seen on a rock; one is taking flight. To the left of the scene, on the shore, a family fish for their food, using rod and line Possibly after William Hodges, 1744-1797, from Cook's second voyage 'A fishing scene observed by Lieutenant James Cook and the crew of the Endeavour, Tahiti, 1769. Illustration from An account of the voyages ...for makng discoveries in the southern hemisphere, by John Hawkesworth (London, 1773)'. (Information from the Royal Society website http://prints.royalsociety.org/art/579969/Fishing_scene_Tahiti) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on laid paper, 240 x 430 mm (plate mark) Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, The Barry Cash photographic collection and private vendors auction, 16 October, 2014; lot P434

Date: 1845

From: Baxter, George, 1804-1867 :Pomare, Queen of Tahiti. George Pritchard. London, Designed, printed in oil & published by G. Baxter, patentee [1845]

By: Baxter, George, 1804-1867

Reference: E-006-f-002

Description: Shows Queen Pomare, her husband, a servant or friend and three small children, seated by an open window, with a beach visible outside, with French soldiers and ships and canoes in the harbour. A proclamation signed A. DuPetit-Thouars is on a chair in the left foreground and a bible lies on the window-ledge Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) bound with one other. Physical Description: Coloured Baxter print 268 x 227 mm on mount 372 x 287 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull

Date: 1803 - 1799

By: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815; Smirke, Robert - 1752-1845

Reference: D-016-004

Description: A large group of Europeans on the right, including Captain James Wilson and his nephew William Wilson meeting with Tahitians on the left, including the Tahitian King and Queen. The King and Queen are held aloft on the shoulders of their bearers. Their blind witch doctor is crouching to the left. The picture was commissioned by the London Missionary Society. The oil painting from which this print was taken was commissioned from Smirke, the artist, by the London Missionary Society to commemorate the success of Captain Wilson's voyage to Tahiti. They sold the copyright to the print seller Jeffries in return for the first 400 copies of the print (100 coloured and 300 plain). See "European Vision and the South Pacific" by Bernard Smith, pp. 144-147; Also "Portraits of the Famous and Infamous" p. 324. The first edition of this print appeared in 1799 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured 520 x 736 mm on sheet 697 x 1000 mm

Date: 1803

By: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815; Smirke, Robert - 1752-1845

Reference: D-016-005

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 520 x 736 mm