Artist unknown :Mercury Bay, New Zealand. - [ca 1840]

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Artist unknown :Mercury Bay, New Zealand. - [ca 1840]

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Collection

TAPUHI

Description

Two view on one sheet: the upper view shows a sailing ship, probably the Endeavour, with canoes; the lower view shows Maori launching a canoe from a beach, with palm trees (or tall tree ferns) to the right Cook was the first European to visit (and give a European name to) Mercury Bay Another copy of the same image is in Felton Mathew's scrapbook, E-389-f-001 The image of Mercury Bay is derived in part from Sainson's lithograph 'Village a l'anse de l'Astrolabe' published 1833 and showing...

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Image

Creator

Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800- / Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22743797

Locations

Mercury Bay / Astrolabe Roadstead

Related subjects

HMS Endeavour (Ship : 1768-1775) / Waka / Cook, James, 1728-1779 / Voyages, 1st, 1768-1771 / Mercury Bay / Astrolabe Roadstead

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