IMAGE
Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886 :Ko Himiona Tu [1845]
- Date
- 1845
- By
- Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886
- Reference
- E-137-q-018
- Description
A Maori boy, dressed in European clothes, seated on a bed covered with a fringed flax cloak, with pictures pinned to the raupo-covered walls behind him and a jacket hanging from it. Either painted at St John's College, Purewa (Meadowbank, Auckland) during 'Himiona Tu's' time there as a student, or inside the boy's home. Himiona is a transliteration of the European name Simon and suggests the boy has been baptised.
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - 14. Ko Himiona Tu [in brownink]
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour, 224 x 283 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860. / Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Portraits, Watercolour, 224 x 283 mm
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