New Zealand Antique Prints & Rare Books | Ethnology

Ethnology ARCHIVE: — SOLD Items

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Prints listed here are for reference only. They represent a selection of ethnology prints that have been sold through the New Zealand Birds Greytown Gallery or through this web site.

Charles D BARRAUD (1822-1897) (artist)

Lithographer: C.F. Kell, Castle St. Holborn London E.C.

PUBLICATION

New Zealand: graphic and descriptive

Published in 1877 by Samson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington.
Editor: W.T.L. Travers.

Original chromo-lithographs, plain lithographs and woodcuts

Bureau of Ethnology

Artists: J.W. Powell, Julius Bien.

PUBLICATION

4th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, (1882-83)

Original chromolithograph

New Zealand Tattooed Maori Heads, Plate III

Sydney PARKINSON (1745 - 1771) (artist)

Sydney PARKINSON was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and from an early age his artistic abilities were noticed.

He was employed by Joseph Banks in London before joining him and Daniel Solander on James Cook’s Endeavour on a circumnavigation of the globe (1768-1771) as a botanical draughtsman. During the voyage, he made at least 1,300 drawings and paintings. Parkinson was the first European to draw eucalypts.

On the return voyage, he died in Batavia.

In addition to recording the journey visually, Parkinson helped in other ways. He compiled a list of indigenous vocabulary. He also kept a detailed journal with a wealth of information.

In his journal, Parkinson wrote: The Māori “had their hair tied up on the crown of their heads in a knot . . . Their faces were tataowed, or marked either all over, or on one side, in a very curious manner, some of them in fine spiral directions like a volute being indented in the skin very different from the rest.”

James COOK (1728-1779)

In three voyages James COOK sailed thousands of miles across largely uncharted areas of the globe. He mapped lands from New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean in greater detail and on a scale not previously achieved.

As he progressed on his voyages of discovery he surveyed and named features, and recorded islands and coastlines on European maps for the first time. He displayed a combination of seamanship, superior surveying and cartographic skills, physical courage and an ability to lead men in adverse conditions.

James Cook was killed in Hawaii in a fight with Hawaiians during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779. He left a legacy of scientific and geographical knowledge which was to influence his successors well into the 20th century and numerous memorials worldwide have been dedicated to him.

PUBLICATIONS

John HAWKESWORTH

An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of his Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. c. 1773.

Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique actuellement régnante pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémisphère méridional, et successivement exécutés par le commodore Byron, le capitaine Carteret, le capitaine Wallis et le capitaine Cook dans les vaisseaux "le Dauphin", "le Swallow" and "l'Endeavour", 1777.

("A Voyage towards the South Pole and round the World". Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775 written by James COOK. London: Strahan 1777, French edition).