Artist: Blanchard and Thierry frères, Paris (lithographers) after Mesnard (draughtsman)
Title: Cases du Pāhā (Village) de Kororaréka (Nouvelle Zelande)
Date: 1841
School: French, French XIXth-century
Medium: hand-coloured lithograph printed on chine collé
Dimensions: 217 x 303mm (image with caption), 322 x 465mm (secondary support)
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: in the image top left border <<Voyage de la frégate La Vénus>>, in the image top right border <<Atlas Pittoresque>>; in the image bottom left border to bottom right border <<Mesnard delt. Lith. de Thierry frères, Paris Lith. par Blanchard>>; in the image lower bottom border <<Cases du Pāhā (Village) de Kororaréka (Nouvelle Zelande)>>
Condition: very fine, original colouring
Description: View of Māori houses and inhabitants at the Pā at Kororāreka (Russell) in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Plate 62 from the Atlas Pittoresque accompanying Abel du Petit-Thouars, Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate La Vénus, pendant les années 1836-1839, publié par ordre du Roi, sous les auspices du Ministre de la Marine., Paris: Gide, 1841
Reference: Bagnall, 1750
Provenance: Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, Antiquarian and Rare Books sale, February 2023
