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C1847
Honi Heki and Patuone.
Famous lithograph by George French Angas of two of the most import Maori chiefs; Honi Heke and Eruera Maihi Patuone (1764-1872). This is plate number one in Angas’s series and is rarely found in good condition. Hōne Heke is considered … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Honi Heki and Patuone.
Date:
C1847
Engraver:
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
(1807 –
1894)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Lithograph with original hand colouring.
Image Size:
215mm
x 280mm
Paper Size:
352mm
x 532mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1847
Description:
Famous lithograph by George French Angas of two of the most import Maori chiefs; Honi Heke and Eruera Maihi Patuone (1764-1872). This is plate number one in Angas’s series and is rarely found in good condition.
Hōne Heke is considered the principal instigator of the Flagstaff War in 1845–1846.
Patuone aas a chief of the Ngati Hao tribe of Nga-puhi and one of the earliest signatories of the Treaty of Waitangi (Feb 1840).
“The renowned warrior, Honi Heki has, within the past three years, become celebrated throughout the civilised world for his determined and resolute opposition to the British power and his defeat of the troops at the Bay of Islands.”
“Patuone is the elder brother of Nene, the Chief of Hokianga.”….
From Angas, New Zealanders Illustrated.
Collections:
Auckland Art Gallery: Accession no 2009/16/1/1
Auckland Museum; Accession Number 95×3/87.4
George French Angas (1822 - 1886)
Angas was a painter, lithographer, engraver and naturalist, fourth child and eldest son of George Fife Angas, a merchant and banker. As the eldest son he was expected to join his father's firm, but some months in a London counting house proved a disillusioning experience. In 1841 he took art lessons for four months from Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, a natural history painter and lithographer, and armed with this instruction set out to see the world. He began in the Mediterranean publishing, A Ramble in Malta and Sicily in the Autumn of 1841.......Illustrated with Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Drawn on the Stone by the Author, the following year. Angas's father had established the South Australian Company in 1836 and had large areas of land as well as banking interests in the province. George French sailed for South Australia in 1843 in the Augustus, arriving in Adelaide on 1st January 1844. Within days he had joined an exploring party selecting runs for the South Australia Company. They traveled through the Mount Lofty Ranges to the Murray River and down to Lake Coorong and Angas sketched views of the countryside, native animals and the customs and dwellings of the Narrinyerri people. Later he drew scenes on his father's land - 28,000 acres in the Barossa Valley - and accompanied George Grey's expedition to the then unknown south-east as unofficial artist. In July 1844 Angas visited New Zealand. Guided by two Maoris, he traveled on foot and by canoe through both islands, painting portraits of Maoris and views. Angas's father died in 1879, leaving a vast estate from which George French received only a annuity of 1000 pounds. In 1884 he went to Dominica on a collecting expedition, finding shells, moths, butterflies and birds. Dogged by rheumatism and neuralgia during his last years, Angas died in London on 4 October 1886.
