IMAGE
[Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :Wai Horua (elder brother of Te Rau-paraha) Kopae [Wellington, ca 1890]
- Date
- 1844 - 1888 - 1891
- By
- Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Kirkwood, Henry William, 1854-1925
- Reference
- B-110-021-2
- Description
A seated Maori woman (te Wainokenoke) wrapped in a blanket, to the the left of Nohorua (with full moko). Bhind the couple is Nohorua's son, Tuarua, standing, wrapped in a blanket. The group is depicted 'in a potato ground or clearing at Kahotea, between Takapuwahia and Titahi Bay, Porirua' according to Angas
Angas visited New Zealand in 1844. This is a redrawing of his lithograph 'E Wai, his wife. Na Horua ...' plate 19 in his The New Zealanders illustrated (London, 1847). The copyist is probably H. M. Kirkwood
One of four lithographs on one sheet, all copies of work by Angas and probably all copied by Kirkwood. The centre of the sheet is inscribed in blue pencil 'Printed 2500 copies'
Other Titles - E Wai. Na Horua or Tom Street; Tuarau or Kopai his son at Kahotea near Porirua
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Lithograph, 216 x 145 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890 / Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890
- Format
- 1 b&w art print(s), Works of art, Lithographs, Ethnographic illustrations, Portraits, Lithograph, 216 x 145 mm, Orientation: Vertical image
Click to request to view this item, access digital version (if available), and see more information.