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Ship in Queen Charlotte Sound

This photograph of an artwork shows a ship in Queen Charlotte Sound. The back of the print states that it is the Cuba, but another version at the National Library notes: 'The Tory in full sail, sailing through Tory Channel, with a Māori canoe with two sails behind it, a smaller canoe with masts in front. Seabirds on rocks in the foreground, a flax bush and mānuka on a headland to the right and a rocky island in the middle distance with the hills of Queen Charlotte Sound in the background

 

Inscriptions: Inscribed - Recto - bottom left: title in pencil; also bottom right, C. Heaphy [enclosed in a cartouche] and below that G. F. Swainson March 1851. [i.e. copy of a Heaphy drawing by Swainson].' As noted, it was originally created by Charles Heaphy, who arrived in this area in 1839 aboard the Tory.

 

Archives Reference: AAME 8106 W5603 Box 112 11/1/205

collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search#/?q=20938675

 

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