Artist: E Mervyn Taylor (1906-1964)
Title: Tāne the creator
Date: 1956
School: New Zealand
Medium: wood engraving
Dimensions: 143 x 110mm (image), 207 x 136mm (sheet)
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: on the image in pencil lower left to lower right <<Tane & Hineahuone Ed 40 E. Mervyn Taylor>>
Condition: fine condition printed on oatmeal-coloured laid paper, discolouration at the four corners but not encroaching on the image and hidden under the mount
Description: Boxwood engraving depicting Tāne creating the first woman, Hineahuone, with New Zealand flora and fauna
Reference: Bryan James, E. Mervyn Taylor Artist: Craftsman, Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2006, ill. p. 112
Provenance: Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, 2022
