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![[The head of a New Zealander, with a comb in his hair, an ornament of green stone in his ear, and another of a fish's hook round his neck.] - Antique Print from 1773](https://i0.wp.com/antiqueprintmaproom.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/079_web_a.jpg?fit=1170%2C1448&ssl=1 "[The head of a New Zealander, with a com… Captain Cook")
C1773
[The head of a New Zealander, with a com…
Artist:
Rare and important c.18th engraved portrait of Otegoowgoow or (Otegoongoon), the son of the Maori chief from the Bay of Islands, New Zealand by Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771). Parkinson’s portraits of Maori warriors were the first visual record of the physiognomy, … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
[The head of a New Zealander, with a comb in his hair, an ornament of green stone in his ear, and another of a fish’s hook round his neck.]
Date:
C1773
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
180mm
x 225mm
Paper Size:
229mm
x 293mm
AUTHENTICITY
![[The head of a New Zealander, with a comb in his hair, an ornament of green stone in his ear, and another of a fish's hook round his neck.] - Antique Print from 1773](https://antiqueprintmaproom.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/guarantee_seal_update.svg "[The head of a New Zealander, with a com… Captain Cook")
Genuine antique
dated:
1773
Description:
Rare and important c.18th engraved portrait of Otegoowgoow or (Otegoongoon), the son of the Maori chief from the Bay of Islands, New Zealand by Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771).
Parkinson’s portraits of Maori warriors were the first visual record of the physiognomy, tattoo patterning, dress and ornament of Māori to be seen in Europe.
Otegoowgoow was wounded by shot in the fracas with Cook and his party on 29 November 1769. Banks met the man on 3 December, noting;
‘They hung to them by strings many very different thing[s], often chissels or bodkins made of a green talk…. or the tooth of a whale cut slauntwise, so as something to resemble a tongue, and furnished with two eyes; these they wore about their necks and seemed to Value almost above everything else’. (Banks, Journal II, 17.)
From the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s first voyage. All other later copies made of this image by other publishers were unauthorised, usually smaller and inferior in quality.
From: Hawkesworth, An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere,…
References:
Beddie, M. Bibliography of Captain James Cook, RN,FRS, Circumnavigator. Sydney 1970 648
Hill, J. The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages. San Diego 1974 782
Joppien, R. & Smith, B. The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages; Vol. I, II & III. Melbourne 1985-1987: 1.127A ill.p.185
Collections:
British Museum: Registration number 1977,U.704
National Library Australia: Bib ID 861232
State Library Victoria: RARELTF 910.41 H31V
State Library New South Wales: CALL NUMBERS Q77/16
State Library South Australia: 990T
Sydney Parkinson (1745 - 1771)
Sydney Parkinson (17451771) 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.
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