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[A fortified town or village called an hippah built on a perforated rock] [Plate no] 66.

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Date

[1810-1830]

Artist

Herman Diedrich Spöring (ca. 1733-1771)

Collection

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image Link

https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22521388

Additional Makers

Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771); Engraver: G. Castellini (active 1780-1800)

Description

Aquatint based on a drawing of Te Puta o te Paretauhinau Pa at Mercury Bay, Coromandel Peninsula. The drawing of the pa is by Herman Diedrich Sporing, Sir Joseph Banks' clerk; the canoe is copied from a drawing by Sydney Parkinson, the official artist aboard the Endeavour. The scene shows a long war canoe in the left foreground; an arched rock in the water behind the boat with a pa on top of it; two canoes pulled up on the bank to the right behind the arched rock and dense bush in the background.

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All Rights Reserved

Image Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library

Location

Mercury Bay, Waikato, New Zealand

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People
Boats
Seascapes
Cliffs

Category

Landscapes & Seascapes

TWW Comment

The rock has largely worn away. see: https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Bea01Bank-t1-body-d7-d4.html

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