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2 EARLY ENGRAVINGS; PAH ON ARCHED ROCK TOLAGA BAY + 'BOATS OF THE FRIENDLY ISLES' BY W. HOGDGES ENGRAVER W. WATTS

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Sporing Herman Diedrich 1733-1771: A fortified pah built on a perforated rock at Tolaga in New Zealand. [London Strahan 1773]. Engraving from the official account of Cook's first voyage based on a drawing of Te Puta o te Paretauhinau Pa at Mercury Bay Coromandel Peninsula (not Tolaga Bay as claimed in the title). 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 boat from the Endeavour being rowed in the left foreground; a small canoe with five Maori engaged in fishing in the right foreground; an arched rock in the water behind the boats 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. (NATIONAL LIBRARY RECORD). 225x265mm 'Friendly Isles' print with foxing.