Dwellings - French Polynesia - Tahiti (Island)

Date: 1779 - 1831

By: Batty, Robert, -1848; Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: B-097-002

Description: Tahitian houses with coconut and banana palms, hills in the background Proof before letterpress for illustration in Barrow, John. The eventful history of the mutiny and piractical seizure of H. M. S. Bounty. opp. p. 29. After an engraving by John Webber on James Cook's third voyage. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 69 x 105 mm (image) on sheet 300 x 433 mm

Date: [ca 1909-1913]

From: Creator unknown : Albums of photographs, chiefly relating to phosphate mining at Makatea Island, French Polynesia

Reference: PA1-q-156

Description: Album relating to the establishment of a phosphate mining industry at Makatea Island in the Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia, between 1909 and 1913. Images show some of the people involved with the Compagnie Francaise des Phosphates de L'Oceanie, including Maitre Goupil, and Messieurs Touze, Agache and Bonnet; the offices of the company, both in Papeete and on Makatea Island; and the home of Mr Agache in Papeete. There are scenes of sailing ships and steam ships delivering equipment, and scenes of construction of railway lines, jetties and wharves. As well there are views of the villages of Temao and Vaitepaua where workmen lived, with workers coming from other Polynesian islands and many from Japan. Separate living area for the Japanese workers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green binding entitled `Photo-graphs' beneath a stylised sun motif in gold; 32.5 x 23.5 cm

Date: 1790 - 1777 - 1793

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Bett, Francis Arnot Blackader, 1873-1957; Lyndham, H Saxe, active 1939

Reference: B-091-004

Description: Shows the Vaitepiha River on the Taiarapu Peninsula, Tahiti, 1777. A Tahitian man and woman stand on flat land to the left, a river in the centre. On the river is a canoe and across the river is a village. Tall hills in the background. Acquired with B-091-005 and 006. These drawings, squared up for reproduction, ar considered by Dr R. Joppien to be Webber's preliminary drawings for pl. 5, 6, and 7 in his Views of the South Seas (London, 1808 [i.e. 1809]). The watermark in B-091-006 was in use in the early 1790s (see TL 3/1/1, 13/3/85). Dr J.C. Beaglehole believed them to be copies. Other Titles - Vaitepiha Title and ascription from pencil inscription on verso, which continues: "Sent to Dr Bett of Nelson by H. Saxe Lyndham, London, at the end of 1939 and presented by Dr Bett to the Turnbull Library, 1944". Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing on laid paper; pencil 284 x 416 mm, on sheet 318 x 446 mm Provenance: Inscription on verso: " Sent to Dr Bett of Nelson by H. Saxe Lyndham, London, at the end of 1939 and presented by Dr Bett to the Turnbull Library in 1944".

Date: 1777 - 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Sherwin, John Keyse, 1751-1790

Reference: C-131-028-b

Description: A scene in Tahiti, in 1777, with two men and two women dancing before a hut, spectators on either side. Three drummers are in the background under the shelter of the hut, with a fourth person clapping the rhythm. The dancers appear to be standing on a large woven mat. Banana palms, breadfruit trees and coconut palms can be seen in the background. Other Titles - Tahiti Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 28 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 227 x 379 mm (image), 263 x 405 mm (plate mark)

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: Duperrey, Louis-Isidore, 1786-1865

Reference: C-082-022

Description: Three buildings seen in profile with plan versions below Redrawn by Chazal from original attributed to Duperrey & engraved by Tardieu for publication as plate in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, Arthur Bertrand, 1826) (fr910.4). Other Titles - Royal house. House of the missionaries. Public school of Papaou. [translation] Inscriptions: Recto - Duperrey Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 250 x 370 mm on sheet 510 x 360 mm

Date: 1937

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]

Reference: E-914-q-018

Description: Shows a portrait of a young man in a hat, seated on a doorstep. Inside the figure of a woman is seated on the floor. The upper wall of the house is woven panelling. Photographed in E-918-q, 299/193a. Copies also at 114/193 and similar to that at 130/170. Details supplied in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q. See also E-915-q-002. Extended Title - From her [Album of prints. 1929-1938] page [18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood block 227 x 154 mm, on tissue 285 x 194 mm.

Date: 1778 - 1788 - 1779

By: Cleveley, James, active 1776-1780; Cleveley, John, 1747-1786; Jukes, Francis, 1745-1812; Thomas Martyn (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: G-661

Description: Canoes, dwellings, the Resolution and Discovery at anchor in Fare Harbour, Huahine, Society Islands This copy is severely faded. It hung in the entrance hall to the Alexander Turnbull Library in Bowen Street for many years. A better quality copy (a proof before lettering) is held at C-036-020 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) framed. Physical Description: Aquatint, hand-coloured, 430 x 600 mm Provenance: Collection of A. H. Turnbull. In its original frame. See letters of A. H. Turnbull, v. 4, 1898, p.401.

Date: 1838 - 1835 - 1843 - 1836

From: Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843].

By: Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842

Reference: A-318-039

Description: Shows a scene of a lake or broad river, with two figures in the left foreground, one bending over a narrow plank or boat. Across the water are one or two huts, and there are hills in the distance. Plate 154 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist and Chavannes as the engraver, but the Italian version appears to be by a different engraver. Other Titles - Iles Taiti - Vue d'un interieur de Matavai Other Titles - Tahiti - View of an interior of Matavai Extended Title - From G L Domeny's "Oceania o quinta parte del mondo revista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia ...". Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-43. (Italian edition of his "Oceanie ...". Paris, Firmin Didot freres, 1835-36). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 154 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Ltd Winter Antique auction, 1997, lots 462, 463, 466, 468, and 470.

Date: 1776 - 1782 - 1779 - 1792

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Hogg and Company

Reference: A-111-038

Description: Two Raiatean women and two men dancing in a courtyard in front of a building. Musicians are performing on various drums, and with hand-clapping behind them. They are watched on both sides by a crowd of Tahitians, with a few European sailors amongst them. The two male dancers are squatting, while the two women are standing, wearing fanned out tapa skirts, coconut shells over their breasts and hats. Published in Anderson, G. W. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages. [London, Another edition, ca 1791 or 2]. In the 1st edition this plate is engraved by Hawkins. Derived from an engraving by Sherwin after Webber on Cook's 3rd voyage in Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London, 1784, Pl 28. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 217 x 346 mm on sheet 226 x 356 mm Provenance: Unknown

Date: 1788 - 1969

From: Cleveley, James, fl 1776-1780 :The Cleveley aquatints. [Drawn on the spot by Jas. Cleveley; painted by Jno. Cleveley, London, F. Jukes aquatt.] Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints [1969]

Reference: C-061-019

Description: Title a misnomer for Matavai Bay, Tahiti. Shows Captain Cook with Tahitians on the beach, Tahitian dwellings, canoes and Cook's 2 ships, the Resolution and Discovery. Printed by Pictorial Publications Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 425 x 583 mm, on sheet 555 x 698 mm.

Date: 1787 - 1779

By: Cleveley, James, active 1776-1780; Jukes, Francis, 1745-1812; Thomas Martyn (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-036-019-a

Description: Shows Tahitian canoes and dwellings and the Resolution and Discovery anchored in the harbour of Talough (Opunohu Bay), Moorea, Society Islands. There are large trees on the shore to the left and tall mountain peaks in the background Other Titles - Moorea The scene was recorded during Captain Cook's third circumnavigation Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, hand-coloured, 444 x 617 mm (trimmed to edges) glued to sheet 520 x 655 mm Provenance: Possibly collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1778 - 1800

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Noble, George, active 1795-1806; Hogg and Company

Reference: A-111-058

Description: Two portraits of Tahitian woman from James Cook's third voyage to Tahiti in 1779. The left view has a background of coconut palms and the woman is wearing a very full skirt; the right view includes a dwelling, a banana palm and other bush and the woman is dancing and wearing a hat and a long draped garment with full ruffles at the back Derived from engravings after Webber on Cook's 3rd voyage in" Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London, 1784. Vol 2 pl 27 & 28. Extended Title - From: Anderson, G. W. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages round the world. [Another edition] Pl 106. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on laid paper 222 x 331 mm (image) 230 x 350 mm (plate mark) on sheet 235 x 382 mm

Date: 1936

By: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993

Reference: A-442-040

Description: Shows part of a house overhung by a palm tree, and part of a smaller building at the far right. The main building has a thatched roof, a doorway into a part of the house with woven walls, and a window propped open with a stick. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 118 x 147 mm.

Date: 1769 - 1773 - 1774

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785; Warren, Charles Turner, 1762-1823; Hogg and Company; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: B-085-011

Description: Three Raiatean women dancing, two with elaborate ruffs at the waists of their skirts, watched by other Raiateans on the right and accompanied by a flute-player and two drummers on the left, with a child holding a gourd beside a third drum. The women are dancing on woven matting inside a large open dwelling, supported by wooden pillars and with a beamed ceiling. Coconut palms and pandanus can be seen outside on the left and right. The Endeavour visited Raiatea, one of the Society Islands group near Tahiti in July - August 1769. The drawing is based on sketches of dancers by Parkinson, with the details of the building and background from lost sketches, probably also by Parkinson. The State Library of New South Wales has a pen and wash sketch by Cipriani on which this engraving may be based. There is also an oil in England of the same scene. See Joppien & Smith. The art of Captain Cook's voyages, vol I, cat. no. 1.83 to 1.87C, p.140-152. Other Titles - Utietea = Raiatea Extended Title - From: Anderson, G. W. A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages around the world. Plate 99. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 198 x 325 mm (image); 223 x 351 (plate-mark) on sheet 234 x 383 mm

Date: 1800 - 1810

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

Reference: A-119-051

Description: Plate 83 volume 3 of an illustrated Italian publication. An upper plate showing a large tree trunk, perhaps over a spring, with water spouting along a bark gutter into a pot. The lower plate shows Tahitians fishing with nets from canoes with a background of shoreline houses and mountains Other Titles - Reticulation of water used in the Society Islands. Fishing with a net in the island of Tahiti [Translation] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Two hand-coloured lithographs on one sheet, 296 x 201 mm

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851

Reference: C-082-038

Description: View of the village of Maupiti (Tahiti) showing dwellings, coconut palms, canoes in the water, and a backdrop of a rocky hillside. On the far right there is a row of cliffs overlooking the ocean. Redrawn by Chazal from original by Lejeune, & engraved by Tardieu for publication as plate in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, Arthur Bertrand, 1826) (fr910.4). Inscriptions: Recto - A Chazel Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, 130 x 200 mm on sheet 340 x 500 mm

Date: 1768 - 1820 - 1769

From: [Various artists] :[Plates from All the voyages round the world] - [London ; Sir Richard Phillips & Co., 1820]

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771

Reference: A-211-068

Description: A scene in Raiatea in 1769, with three robed women dancing under a large roofed shelter, spectators behind them and on either side. There is a drummer at the left. After Parkinson's drawing on Cook's first voyage of Raiatean women dancing, engraved and published in John Hawkesworth and in G W Anderson (1784) Plate 99 Other Titles - lThe inside view of a house in the island of Ulietea, with an elegant representation of a dance to the music of that country. ... 1784 Extended Title - Published in Samuel Prior's "All the voyages round the world" , page 514. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, b&w, 80 x 118 mm on sheet, 104 x 179 mm.

Date: 1824 - 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: Duperrey, Louis-Isidore, 1786-1865

Reference: C-082-023

Description: Elevations of three different Society Island houses, with floor plans of each Redrawn by Chazal from original attributed to Duperrey & engraved by Tardieu for publication as plate 10 in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, Arthur Bertrand, 1826) (fr910.4). Other Titles - Society Islands Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, 240 x 330 mm on sheet 510 x 360 mm

Date: 1777 - 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Sherwin, John Keyse, 1751-1790

Reference: C-131-028-c

Description: A scene in Tahiti, in 1777, with two men and two women dancing before a hut, spectators on either side. Three drummers are in the background under the shelter of the hut, with a fourth person clapping the rhythm. The dancers appear to be standing on a large woven mat. Banana palms, breadfruit trees and coconut palms can be seen in the background. Other Titles - Tahiti Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 28 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 227 x 379 mm (image), 263 x 405 mm (plate mark)

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851

Reference: C-082-019

Description: Shows a Tahitian canoe heading towards a sailing ship, Duperrey's vessel, La Coquille. In the background is low-lying land to the left, with coconut palms and houses. To the right are high peaks Redrawn by Chazal from original by Lejeune, & engraved by Tardieu for publication as plate 8 in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, 1826) (fr910.4). Other Titles - View of Point Venus, at Matavai, Tahiti Island [translation] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, 240 x 330 mm on sheet 510 x 360 mm