Māori (New Zealand people) - Dwellings - New Zealand - Tasman Region

Date: 1839 - 1827

From: Dumont d'Urville, Jean Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842 :Voyage pittoresque autour du monde et resume generale des descouvertes. Paris, Furne et Cie, 1839.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: PUBL-0034-2-347

Description: Looking along the beach with several low thatched huts and a canoe pulled up on the beach, bush on the hills behind. Two Maori men are seated in the foreground, and other men and women are also present. A toetoe is in flower to the right of the nearest dwelling Similar to, but reversed from Sainson's lithograph 'Village a l'anse de l'Astrolabe'. Possibly based on a drawing looking in the opposite direction Other Titles - Houses of Astrolabe Bay [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 94 x 115 mm

Date: 1826 - 1836 - 1829

From: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, b 1800 :[Twelve engravings from Dumont d'Urville's "Voyage pittoresque autour du monde" (Paris, 1836)]

Reference: A-433-022

Description: Top image shows a settlement of Maori huts in a small bay. Several Maori figures are seated a standing. The lower image shows a ravine in the centre of lush vegetation. A European man and a Maori man are negotiating the crossing of the ravine by means of a fallen tree trunk. Other Titles - Houses in Astrolabe Bay; Ravine in New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on page 275 x 183 mm.

Date: 1827 - 1833

From: Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842 :Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe execute pendant les annees 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829. Atlas historique. Paris, Tastu, 1833.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Langlume, active 1820s-1830s

Reference: PUBL-0038-1-18r

Description: The right half of a lithographic plate showing a low thatched hut with a half-barrel roof in a bush clearing. A food platform can be seen on the left. Torrent Bay is in the Tasman Region. (The left side shows an Australian Aboriginal Hut) Other Titles - New Zealand. Cabins of Torrent Bay, 4 feet high [translation] Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe. Paris, Tastu, 1833. Atlas historique. Vol 1. Plate 18, right-hand side detail. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 140 x 170 mm

Date: 1827 - 1836

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Werner, Jacques Christophe, 1798-1856; Brodtmann, Karl Joseph, 1787-1862

Reference: A-191-024

Description: Shows a scene at Astrolabe Roadstead, a beach with a Maori kainga at the right. A war canoe is being pulled into the water in the centre foreground, and another canoe is in the water at the far left. Other Titles - Village at Astrolabe Roadstead, Bay Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842. Entdeckungs-Reise der franzosischen Corvette Astrolabe ... aus dem Franzosischen mit einem lithographirten Atlas. Schaffhausen [Switzerland], in J. Brodtmann's lithograpischen Anstalt, [1836? Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, image 160 x 260 mm, on sheet 252 x 340 mm. Provenance: Purchase: Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, 2008.