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Heads of New Zealand chiefs curiously tatowed. A New Zealand war canoe.
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Heads of New Zealand chiefs curiously tatowed. A New Zealand war canoe. Engraved for Middleton’s Complete System of Geography. ca 1790.
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Tattooing
Tā moko
Waka
Cook, James, 1728-1779
Voyages and travels
Maori (New Zealand people)
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Parkinson, Sydney, 1745?-1771
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old stock, accessioned 1956
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1790
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[ca. 1790]
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197 x 288 mm (lacunae)
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engraving on paper
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eng
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Image
Engravings
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Hocken Pictorial Collections - 11,692
a8653
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Nineteenth century
Cook
Engravings
Image
Maori (New Zealand people)
Nineteenth century
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Tā moko
Tattooing
Voyages and travels
Waka
Works of Art
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Enlarging the prospects of happiness: European travel writing through the ages. Online exhibition
Description
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Discoveries of new places, customs and climates always fascinate. While few of us possess the stamina, courage or funds to undertake marvellous or exotic voyages, we eagerly await reports of the exploits of famous travellers. It is little surprise that National Geographic magazine enjoys one of the largest readerships in English. Accounts of travel appear to have been popular from the beginning, though readers in earlier ages clearly sought different sorts of enlightenment expressed in quite different styles. This highly selective record of travel accounts over the past 500 years reveals both continuities and variations as readers explore new possibilities of worship, trade, social and political structures, and new ways of understanding their own place in the world.
Drawn primarily from the riches of the de Beer collection, with other material from special collections and Central Library holdings and from the Hocken Library and pictorial collections, this exhibition displays the remarkable breadth of the University's treasures. Moving outward from Rome as the centre of the European imagination, we traverse Europe through the mid-19th century, roam the Atlantic to the Americas and Africa, and finally conquer the Pacific in search of new territory and ideas. We witness travellers as pilgrims, explorers, diplomats and tourists. We encounter new creatures, renewed appreciation of domestic attractions, and a constant tension between fact and fiction. While the material displayed focuses primarily on works in English, similar publications appeared in every European language.
The exhibition curated by Dr Shef Rogers and was opened on Thursday 20 June 2002 at 5.30pm.
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Sydney Parkinson, botanical draughtsman
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Arched Rock, on the Coast of New Zealand
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Sydney Parkinson, botanical draughtsman on Cook's first voyage, died before returning to London, and his papers found their way to the library of Joseph Banks. Parkinson's brother, Stanfield, eventually obtained the papers, after a bitter public quarrel and court battle with Banks and Hawkesworth, and put out this magnificent book. Since it went to a second edition, it is likely that Stanfield made some money from the venture, and ultimately ensured that Sydney Parkinson's depictions of Australia and New Zealand became well-known treasures.
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Parkinson, Sydney, 1745?-1771
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A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's ship, the Endeavour. Faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Parkinson, ... Embellished with views and designs, ...
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London : printed for Stanfield Parkinson, the editor: and sold by Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart; Evans; Hooper; Murray; Leacroft; and Riley
Date Created
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1773
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Leask, A. J.
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Engravings
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Special Collections de Beer Ec/1773/P
Circumnavigation
Travel
Writing
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Enlarging the prospects of happiness: European travel writing through the ages. Online exhibition
Description
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Discoveries of new places, customs and climates always fascinate. While few of us possess the stamina, courage or funds to undertake marvellous or exotic voyages, we eagerly await reports of the exploits of famous travellers. It is little surprise that National Geographic magazine enjoys one of the largest readerships in English. Accounts of travel appear to have been popular from the beginning, though readers in earlier ages clearly sought different sorts of enlightenment expressed in quite different styles. This highly selective record of travel accounts over the past 500 years reveals both continuities and variations as readers explore new possibilities of worship, trade, social and political structures, and new ways of understanding their own place in the world.
Drawn primarily from the riches of the de Beer collection, with other material from special collections and Central Library holdings and from the Hocken Library and pictorial collections, this exhibition displays the remarkable breadth of the University's treasures. Moving outward from Rome as the centre of the European imagination, we traverse Europe through the mid-19th century, roam the Atlantic to the Americas and Africa, and finally conquer the Pacific in search of new territory and ideas. We witness travellers as pilgrims, explorers, diplomats and tourists. We encounter new creatures, renewed appreciation of domestic attractions, and a constant tension between fact and fiction. While the material displayed focuses primarily on works in English, similar publications appeared in every European language.
The exhibition curated by Dr Shef Rogers and was opened on Thursday 20 June 2002 at 5.30pm.
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A polite traveller and British navigator
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This 12° book, containing two volumes of an eight-volume collection, highlights the strong interest in circumnavigations among readers of every rank. The frontispiece captures the compelling sense of danger, while the title-page enumerates the well-established pantheon of British heroes of the high seas. And this title-page only describes half the book; the other half describes two polar voyages. Such abridged reprints were well within the reach of the average reader, and judicious extracts ensured that they were frequently more engaging to read than the bulkier and more expensive originals.
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Polite traveller and British navigator
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The British navigator : containing an account of voyages round the world: performed by Commodore Byron, begun in the year 1764 and finished in 1766 : by Captain Wallis, begun in 1766, and finished in 1768 : and also that by Captain Carteret, begun at the same time, and finished in 1769 : to which is prefixed, an account of the loss of His Majesty's ship the Centaur, commanded by Captain Inglefield, and of the miraculous escape of the captain and part of his crew.
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London : Printed for John Fielding
Date Created
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[1783?]
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Byron, John, 1723-1786
Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795
Carteret, Philip, -1796
Inglefield, John Nicholson, 1748-1828
Fielding, John
Dolphin (Ship)
Tamar (Ship)
Swallow (Ship : 1795-1807)
Prince Frederick (Ship)
Centaur (Ship)
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Polite traveller and British navigator ; v.7
In box with the other volumes of the series.
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Engravings
Text
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Special Collections de Beer Eb/1783/P
Circumnavigation
Travel
Writing
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Black + White + Grey. The Lives + Works of Eric Gill + Robert Gibbings. Online exhibition
Date Created
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29 May 2015
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In 1946, artist Robert Gibbings (1889-1958) visited his friend John Harris, who was then University Librarian at the University of Otago. Gibbings gave Harris five printed vellum sheets: three of Chaucer’s <em>The Canterbury Tales</em> (1929-31) and two of John Keats’s <em>Lamia</em> (1928). Both these titles were printed at The Golden Cockerel Press, which Gibbings owned from 1924 to 1933. One of the ‘Canterbury’ sheets contained an important addition: illustrations executed by Eric Gill (1882-1940), sculptor, stone cutter, engraver, and typographer. This vellum sheet is a small representative of the work that Gibbings and Gill did together, including the collaboration that resulted in <em>The Canterbury Tales</em>, and <em>The Four Gospels</em> (1931), which has been called ‘the typographical masterpiece of the 20th century’ (John Dreyfus). Both Gibbings and Gill were sons of clergymen; Gibbings visited New Zealand; Gill’s father was born in the South Seas in 1848; both wrote extensively on a wide range of topics; both were members of the Society of Wood Engravers (founded in 1920); both were talented artists; and both were prolific wood-engravers. And importantly for this exhibition, both made and designed books, although at first they were both typographically naïve. Their bookish collaboration lasted from 1925 to 1931. Both men have had a lasting influence in the artistic world. Gibbings created some outstanding limited edition books through his The Golden Cockerel Press. He also left some marvellously lyrical travelogues on places such as Tahiti and Ireland. Gill’s legacy is perhaps more evident. His sculptures are found in institutions throughout the world; his line illustrations are frequently reproduced; and importantly, there are his typefaces such as Perpetua and Gill Sans (the typeface used for this exhibition); the latter often used by modern-day book-makers and designers today. This exhibition is based on holdings within Special Collections. It is an overview, offering a glimpse into the lives and work of these two gifted artists.
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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'Canoeists' reproduced from Over the Reefs
Creator
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Robert Gibbings
Date
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1948
Identifier
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Special Collections DU510 GD94. Reproduced by permission of the Robert Gibbings Estate and the Heather Chalcroft Literary Agency
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Engravings
Publisher
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London: J.M. Dent and Sons
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Written in Wellington, <em>Over the Reefs</em>, is a memoir of Gibbings’s time in the South Pacific from 1945 until 1947. Along with Patience Empson, his wife’s sister, he visited Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tokelau, Tahiti and the Cook Islands. The last six months of the trip were spent in Wellington typing up the text.
Engravings
Eric Gill
Robert Gibbings
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Enlarging the prospects of happiness: European travel writing through the ages. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
Discoveries of new places, customs and climates always fascinate. While few of us possess the stamina, courage or funds to undertake marvellous or exotic voyages, we eagerly await reports of the exploits of famous travellers. It is little surprise that National Geographic magazine enjoys one of the largest readerships in English. Accounts of travel appear to have been popular from the beginning, though readers in earlier ages clearly sought different sorts of enlightenment expressed in quite different styles. This highly selective record of travel accounts over the past 500 years reveals both continuities and variations as readers explore new possibilities of worship, trade, social and political structures, and new ways of understanding their own place in the world.
Drawn primarily from the riches of the de Beer collection, with other material from special collections and Central Library holdings and from the Hocken Library and pictorial collections, this exhibition displays the remarkable breadth of the University's treasures. Moving outward from Rome as the centre of the European imagination, we traverse Europe through the mid-19th century, roam the Atlantic to the Americas and Africa, and finally conquer the Pacific in search of new territory and ideas. We witness travellers as pilgrims, explorers, diplomats and tourists. We encounter new creatures, renewed appreciation of domestic attractions, and a constant tension between fact and fiction. While the material displayed focuses primarily on works in English, similar publications appeared in every European language.
The exhibition curated by Dr Shef Rogers and was opened on Thursday 20 June 2002 at 5.30pm.
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Settlement of Australia
Description
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The frontispiece to this gorgeous volume captures the adventure associated with the settlement of Australia. Though the documents do not constitute a travel narrative, their connections with the moment of origin provide their intended readers with the same sense of national pride and discovery that attracted readers of the contemporary accounts.
Creator
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Rutter, Owen, 1889-1944
Source
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The first fleet : the record of the foundation of Australia from its conception to the settlement at Sydney Cove. Compiled from the original documents in the Public record office...
Publisher
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Golden Cockerel Press
Date Created
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1937
Type
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Engravings
Text
Identifier
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Special Collections: DU80 .RZ35
The Pacific
Travel
Writing
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Unpacking Ruins: architecture from antiquity. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
12 September - 28 November 2002 ~ de Beer Gallery
Central Library, University of Otago
Through the last five hundred years, ancient ruins have been uncovered, rediscovered and reinterpreted. They have provoked architectural inspiration. They have been studied to develop and support theories on how to build and how to value building. They have prompted reflection upon the end of Empire and upon the demise of civilization. In turn, they have provoked thoughts of future civilizations rising.
This exhibition of books and prints of the last four centuries traces changes in the way the West has related to the architecture of antiquity. Works displayed are from the collections of the University of Otago Library. Through text and illustrations the exhibition ponders how the material of the past has variously been unpacked and repackaged.
To unpack - to undo or open, to bring something out of storage.
Ruins, the weathered fragments speak of loss. They tell of the buildings that once were, of the people who made them, and of the cultures from which they arose. They tell of destruction, abandonment and decay. When viewing the larger volumes displayed in this exhibition one cannot help but feel a profound sense of absence. One may be filled with a longing for the past, or could be drawn to reflect upon the inevitably of the future. However, absence and loss are not the intended focus of the exhibition. Rather it is to chronicle how people have attempted to make sense of the ruins, how they have represented them, and how they have used them to understand the times in which they lived.
These volumes, selected from the Special Collections at the University of Otago Library reveal how ruins and fragments of antiquity have been variously cited over the last five hundred years. The 16th century edition of Vitruvius is evidence of the Renaissance search for an authentic voice from antiquity. Works from the century following present theoretical arguments and the search for architectural perfection, with surviving buildings, ruins and texts being compared and debated. Similar analysis has continued long after these works appeared. It is also apt to compare them with the text by Le Corbusier who returned to his youthful perceptions in Greece, Turkey and Italy for inspiration, example and origin.
Travel guides reveal how existing remains became part of the visual vocabulary of the 17th and 18th centuries. Authoritative accounts by British architect-travelers of ruins in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East were published as large folios between 1750 and 1850. The works of Wood and Dawkins in the Levant, of Stuart and Revett in Athens, of Adam in Dalmatia and of Cameron in Italy, follow the scientific archaeological approach of the Frenchman Desgodets. However these journeys were romantic and at times, fanciful, explorations as well. In the published volumes, travelers presented the surviving fragments and reconstituted them into reinvented larger works. In doing so, they changed the Western understanding of architecture and its day-to-day practice.
In considering the fall of empires in the late 18th century, it was inevitable that the survey of ruins would prompt reflection on the future of the West. In 1774 Horace Walpole wrote to Horace Mann,
"The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will perhaps be a Thucylides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and in time a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last some curious traveller from Lima, will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St Paul's, like editions of Baalbec and Palmyra."
It is not surprising that sixty years later, at a time when the colonisation of New Zealand was actively debated in the Houses of Parliament, Macaulay would speculate upon a future New Zealander surveying the ruins of London. Doré's romantic image of the Mäori, draped in Renaissance gown and sketching, recalls illustrations of Wood and Stuart in the East, and it confirms the city in the line of great imperial centres. However the figure seated on the ruins of London Bridge may have seemed oddly chilling to the Victorian viewers.
The cutaway view of the Bank of England drawn by Joseph Gandy (in the vitrine outside the gallery) may have prompted a similar response. It presents the completed structure opened, clean, and viewed from the eye of God. The sunlit ruin appears timeless.
As well as being an emblem of transience, ruins signal persistence over time. It is this sense of permanence, or at least of a very slow decay, that perhaps provokes a continuing fascination and a pleasure that some recent writers have found in the them.
This exhibition has been curated by Robin Skinner of the School of Architecture, Victoria University Wellington. He was assisted by Elizabeth Tinker, Catherine Robertson and Sarah Jones of the Reference Department of the University of Otago Library.
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Roma aeterna Petri Schenkii
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Roma aeterna Petri Schenkii; sive, Ipsius aedificiorum Romanorum integrorum collapsorumque conspectus duplex
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Architecture
Title pages
Illustrated books
Rome (Italy)
Description
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This publication by Amsterdam publisher and engraver Peter Schenk is typical of those that were appearing at the turn of the 18th century. The page shown depicts the ruins of the aqueduct the Aqua Marcia. It conveyed water to both the baths of Diocletian and to those of Caracalla.
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Schenk, Peter
Publisher
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s.n.: Amstelodami
Date Created
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1705
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Hume, Abraham
Type
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Engravings
Illustrations
Text
Identifier
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Lc 1705 S [de Beer Special Collections]
Antiquity
Architecture
Rome (Italy)
Special Collections
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Enlarging the prospects of happiness: European travel writing through the ages. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
Discoveries of new places, customs and climates always fascinate. While few of us possess the stamina, courage or funds to undertake marvellous or exotic voyages, we eagerly await reports of the exploits of famous travellers. It is little surprise that National Geographic magazine enjoys one of the largest readerships in English. Accounts of travel appear to have been popular from the beginning, though readers in earlier ages clearly sought different sorts of enlightenment expressed in quite different styles. This highly selective record of travel accounts over the past 500 years reveals both continuities and variations as readers explore new possibilities of worship, trade, social and political structures, and new ways of understanding their own place in the world.
Drawn primarily from the riches of the de Beer collection, with other material from special collections and Central Library holdings and from the Hocken Library and pictorial collections, this exhibition displays the remarkable breadth of the University's treasures. Moving outward from Rome as the centre of the European imagination, we traverse Europe through the mid-19th century, roam the Atlantic to the Americas and Africa, and finally conquer the Pacific in search of new territory and ideas. We witness travellers as pilgrims, explorers, diplomats and tourists. We encounter new creatures, renewed appreciation of domestic attractions, and a constant tension between fact and fiction. While the material displayed focuses primarily on works in English, similar publications appeared in every European language.
The exhibition curated by Dr Shef Rogers and was opened on Thursday 20 June 2002 at 5.30pm.
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Venice
Description
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Published in Paris, in French, Silvestre's book is the only guidebook in the case clearly intended for a foreign audience. Drawing upon knowledge gained from several trips to Italy, he published engravings of the highlights and thus embarked on a most successful career as an illustrator of travel, issuing later collections on Paris, French sea ports, and chateaus. This particular volume is his second set of Italian engravings.
Creator
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Silvestre, Israel, 1621-1691
Source
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Veues d'Italie
Publisher
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A Paris : Chez Israel Henriet
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
1654
Contributor
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Henriet, Israel
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Engravings
Identifier
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Special Collections De Beer Fc/1654/V
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Italy
Great cities of Italy
Travel
Writing
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Enlarging the prospects of happiness: European travel writing through the ages. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
Discoveries of new places, customs and climates always fascinate. While few of us possess the stamina, courage or funds to undertake marvellous or exotic voyages, we eagerly await reports of the exploits of famous travellers. It is little surprise that National Geographic magazine enjoys one of the largest readerships in English. Accounts of travel appear to have been popular from the beginning, though readers in earlier ages clearly sought different sorts of enlightenment expressed in quite different styles. This highly selective record of travel accounts over the past 500 years reveals both continuities and variations as readers explore new possibilities of worship, trade, social and political structures, and new ways of understanding their own place in the world.
Drawn primarily from the riches of the de Beer collection, with other material from special collections and Central Library holdings and from the Hocken Library and pictorial collections, this exhibition displays the remarkable breadth of the University's treasures. Moving outward from Rome as the centre of the European imagination, we traverse Europe through the mid-19th century, roam the Atlantic to the Americas and Africa, and finally conquer the Pacific in search of new territory and ideas. We witness travellers as pilgrims, explorers, diplomats and tourists. We encounter new creatures, renewed appreciation of domestic attractions, and a constant tension between fact and fiction. While the material displayed focuses primarily on works in English, similar publications appeared in every European language.
The exhibition curated by Dr Shef Rogers and was opened on Thursday 20 June 2002 at 5.30pm.
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Laplanders
Alternative Title
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Rein-deer Sledges
Description
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Smollett's collection ranged as widely as possible in all directions, and this account of Laplanders provides a nice comparison with the Webber image above.
Creator
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Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771
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A compendium of authentic and entertaining voyages, digested in a chronological series. The whole exhibiting a clear view of the customs, manners, religion, government, commerce, and natural history of most nations in the known world. ...
Publisher
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London : printed for W. Strahan; J. Rivington; W. Johnston; J. Dodsley; T. Caslon; T. Lowndes; W. Nicoll; Richardson and Urquhart; T. Jefferies; and B. Collins at Salisbury
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
1766
Contributor
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Mitford, Ioh
Strahan, William, 1715-1785
Rivington, John, 1720-1792
Johnston, W. (William), -1804
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Engravings
Text
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Special Collections: de Beer Eb/1766/S v.1-7
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De Beer Collection copy has bookplate: Ioh. Mitford.
Polar
Travel
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Enlarging the prospects of happiness: European travel writing through the ages. Online exhibition
Description
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Discoveries of new places, customs and climates always fascinate. While few of us possess the stamina, courage or funds to undertake marvellous or exotic voyages, we eagerly await reports of the exploits of famous travellers. It is little surprise that National Geographic magazine enjoys one of the largest readerships in English. Accounts of travel appear to have been popular from the beginning, though readers in earlier ages clearly sought different sorts of enlightenment expressed in quite different styles. This highly selective record of travel accounts over the past 500 years reveals both continuities and variations as readers explore new possibilities of worship, trade, social and political structures, and new ways of understanding their own place in the world.
Drawn primarily from the riches of the de Beer collection, with other material from special collections and Central Library holdings and from the Hocken Library and pictorial collections, this exhibition displays the remarkable breadth of the University's treasures. Moving outward from Rome as the centre of the European imagination, we traverse Europe through the mid-19th century, roam the Atlantic to the Americas and Africa, and finally conquer the Pacific in search of new territory and ideas. We witness travellers as pilgrims, explorers, diplomats and tourists. We encounter new creatures, renewed appreciation of domestic attractions, and a constant tension between fact and fiction. While the material displayed focuses primarily on works in English, similar publications appeared in every European language.
The exhibition curated by Dr Shef Rogers and was opened on Thursday 20 June 2002 at 5.30pm.
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A compendium of authentic and entertaining voyages (2)
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A View of the Whale Fishery
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Smollett is best known as a novelist and historian, but his collection of voyages was popular during the second half of the eighteenth century. In his own travels, Smollett was a very grumpy character, but he clearly possessed a good idea of what his readers were after. These two engravings encompass the range of those readerly interests: the whale fishery implies a strongly practical and exploitative interest in travel, while the stereotypical cannibal scene, with whole appendages roasting on the grill and a toddler either nibbling on a small bone (imbibing cannibal culture) or nursing (itself a form of consumption of another human, albeit one acceptable to European culture), implies a fascination and/or revulsion surrounding the otherness of the new world.
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Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771
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A compendium of authentic and entertaining voyages, digested in a chronological series. The whole exhibiting a clear view of the customs, manners, religion, government, commerce, and natural history of most nations in the known world. ...
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London : printed for W. Strahan; J. Rivington; W. Johnston; J. Dodsley; T. Caslon; T. Lowndes; W. Nicoll; Richardson and Urquhart; T. Jefferies; and B. Collins at Salisbury
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1766
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Mitford, Ioh
Strahan, William, 1715-1785
Rivington, John, 1720-1792
Johnston, W. (William), -1804
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Engravings
Text
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Special Collections: de Beer Eb/1766/S v.1-7
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De Beer Collection copy has bookplate: Ioh. Mitford
North & South America
Travel
Writing
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Enlarging the prospects of happiness: European travel writing through the ages. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
Discoveries of new places, customs and climates always fascinate. While few of us possess the stamina, courage or funds to undertake marvellous or exotic voyages, we eagerly await reports of the exploits of famous travellers. It is little surprise that National Geographic magazine enjoys one of the largest readerships in English. Accounts of travel appear to have been popular from the beginning, though readers in earlier ages clearly sought different sorts of enlightenment expressed in quite different styles. This highly selective record of travel accounts over the past 500 years reveals both continuities and variations as readers explore new possibilities of worship, trade, social and political structures, and new ways of understanding their own place in the world.
Drawn primarily from the riches of the de Beer collection, with other material from special collections and Central Library holdings and from the Hocken Library and pictorial collections, this exhibition displays the remarkable breadth of the University's treasures. Moving outward from Rome as the centre of the European imagination, we traverse Europe through the mid-19th century, roam the Atlantic to the Americas and Africa, and finally conquer the Pacific in search of new territory and ideas. We witness travellers as pilgrims, explorers, diplomats and tourists. We encounter new creatures, renewed appreciation of domestic attractions, and a constant tension between fact and fiction. While the material displayed focuses primarily on works in English, similar publications appeared in every European language.
The exhibition curated by Dr Shef Rogers and was opened on Thursday 20 June 2002 at 5.30pm.
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A compendium of authentic and entertaining voyages (1)
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The Natives of the Caribee Islands feasting on human Flesh
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Smollett is best known as a novelist and historian, but his collection of voyages was popular during the second half of the eighteenth century. In his own travels, Smollett was a very grumpy character, but he clearly possessed a good idea of what his readers were after. These two engravings encompass the range of those readerly interests: the whale fishery implies a strongly practical and exploitative interest in travel, while the stereotypical cannibal scene, with whole appendages roasting on the grill and a toddler either nibbling on a small bone (imbibing cannibal culture) or nursing (itself a form of consumption of another human, albeit one acceptable to European culture), implies a fascination and/or revulsion surrounding the otherness of the new world.
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Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771
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A compendium of authentic and entertaining voyages, digested in a chronological series. The whole exhibiting a clear view of the customs, manners, religion, government, commerce, and natural history of most nations in the known world. ...
Publisher
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London : printed for W. Strahan; J. Rivington; W. Johnston; J. Dodsley; T. Caslon; T. Lowndes; W. Nicoll; Richardson and Urquhart; T. Jefferies; and B. Collins at Salisbury
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1766
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Mitford, Ioh
Strahan, William, 1715-1785
Rivington, John, 1720-1792
Johnston, W. (William), -1804
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Engravings
Text
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Special Collections: de Beer Eb/1766/S v.1-7
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De Beer Collection copy has bookplate: Ioh. Mitford.
North & South America
Travel
Writing
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Enlarging the prospects of happiness: European travel writing through the ages. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
Discoveries of new places, customs and climates always fascinate. While few of us possess the stamina, courage or funds to undertake marvellous or exotic voyages, we eagerly await reports of the exploits of famous travellers. It is little surprise that National Geographic magazine enjoys one of the largest readerships in English. Accounts of travel appear to have been popular from the beginning, though readers in earlier ages clearly sought different sorts of enlightenment expressed in quite different styles. This highly selective record of travel accounts over the past 500 years reveals both continuities and variations as readers explore new possibilities of worship, trade, social and political structures, and new ways of understanding their own place in the world.
Drawn primarily from the riches of the de Beer collection, with other material from special collections and Central Library holdings and from the Hocken Library and pictorial collections, this exhibition displays the remarkable breadth of the University's treasures. Moving outward from Rome as the centre of the European imagination, we traverse Europe through the mid-19th century, roam the Atlantic to the Americas and Africa, and finally conquer the Pacific in search of new territory and ideas. We witness travellers as pilgrims, explorers, diplomats and tourists. We encounter new creatures, renewed appreciation of domestic attractions, and a constant tension between fact and fiction. While the material displayed focuses primarily on works in English, similar publications appeared in every European language.
The exhibition curated by Dr Shef Rogers and was opened on Thursday 20 June 2002 at 5.30pm.
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Sotheby's musings
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Sotheby's youthful poems eagerly evoke the picturesque, and the engravings added to this second edition only heighten that sensibility. An evocation such as 'Hail, solemn wreck!' (10) does not connote praise, and the beauty of the moonlit ruin proves a refreshing tonic only to the traveller who can leave behind the dilapidation evident by daylight:
the musing mind
Oft 'mid the pensive pleasures that attend
The close of day, with many a mournful thought
Opprest, sad dwells on life's swift passing scene,
And dreams of bliss delusive. . . . (11-12)
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Sotheby, William, 1757-1833
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A tour through parts of Wales, Sonnets, odes, and other poems. With engravings from drawings taken on the spot, by J. Smith. By W. Sotheby, Esq.
Publisher
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London : printed by J. Smeeton, for R. Blamire
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1794
Contributor
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Smith, John, 1749-1831
Smeeton, Joseph, -1809
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De Beer Collection copy bound with: The hermit of Warkworth. 1806.
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Engravings
Text
Identifier
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Special Collections: de Beer Ec/1794/S
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Wales
Ireland & Wales
Travel
Writing
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Enlarging the prospects of happiness: European travel writing through the ages. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
Discoveries of new places, customs and climates always fascinate. While few of us possess the stamina, courage or funds to undertake marvellous or exotic voyages, we eagerly await reports of the exploits of famous travellers. It is little surprise that National Geographic magazine enjoys one of the largest readerships in English. Accounts of travel appear to have been popular from the beginning, though readers in earlier ages clearly sought different sorts of enlightenment expressed in quite different styles. This highly selective record of travel accounts over the past 500 years reveals both continuities and variations as readers explore new possibilities of worship, trade, social and political structures, and new ways of understanding their own place in the world.
Drawn primarily from the riches of the de Beer collection, with other material from special collections and Central Library holdings and from the Hocken Library and pictorial collections, this exhibition displays the remarkable breadth of the University's treasures. Moving outward from Rome as the centre of the European imagination, we traverse Europe through the mid-19th century, roam the Atlantic to the Americas and Africa, and finally conquer the Pacific in search of new territory and ideas. We witness travellers as pilgrims, explorers, diplomats and tourists. We encounter new creatures, renewed appreciation of domestic attractions, and a constant tension between fact and fiction. While the material displayed focuses primarily on works in English, similar publications appeared in every European language.
The exhibition curated by Dr Shef Rogers and was opened on Thursday 20 June 2002 at 5.30pm.
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Thicknesse's account
Description
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Another popular account, Thicknesse proceeds more regularly than Pratt or Sterne, but their influence and elements of the picturesque are evident in the looming hills and the pious or pitiable pilgrims in the foreground. This account exemplifies the popularity of the walking tour, presented as a series of letters that permits a more personal narrative.
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Thicknesse, Philip, 1719-1792
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A year's journey through France and part of Spain / by Philip Thicknesse, Esq.
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London : Printed for and sold by W. Brown ...
Date Created
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1778
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Brown, William, active 1765-1797
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Indexed in: ESTC t085254
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The second edition with additions
Format
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2 v. : ill. (1 folded) (engravings) ; 23 cm.
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Engravings
Text
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Special Collections de Beer Eb/1778/T v.1
France
Travel
Writing
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Enlarging the prospects of happiness: European travel writing through the ages. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
Discoveries of new places, customs and climates always fascinate. While few of us possess the stamina, courage or funds to undertake marvellous or exotic voyages, we eagerly await reports of the exploits of famous travellers. It is little surprise that National Geographic magazine enjoys one of the largest readerships in English. Accounts of travel appear to have been popular from the beginning, though readers in earlier ages clearly sought different sorts of enlightenment expressed in quite different styles. This highly selective record of travel accounts over the past 500 years reveals both continuities and variations as readers explore new possibilities of worship, trade, social and political structures, and new ways of understanding their own place in the world.
Drawn primarily from the riches of the de Beer collection, with other material from special collections and Central Library holdings and from the Hocken Library and pictorial collections, this exhibition displays the remarkable breadth of the University's treasures. Moving outward from Rome as the centre of the European imagination, we traverse Europe through the mid-19th century, roam the Atlantic to the Americas and Africa, and finally conquer the Pacific in search of new territory and ideas. We witness travellers as pilgrims, explorers, diplomats and tourists. We encounter new creatures, renewed appreciation of domestic attractions, and a constant tension between fact and fiction. While the material displayed focuses primarily on works in English, similar publications appeared in every European language.
The exhibition curated by Dr Shef Rogers and was opened on Thursday 20 June 2002 at 5.30pm.
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Milan
Description
An account of the resource
Not to be outdone by Venice, Pisa and Rome, Milan found her own historian in Carlo Torre. This engraving shows one of the oldest surviving Roman colonnades in the city, but does not lavish too much detail on the surroundings, consigning them to a lighter gray background against which the significant ruin stands out prominently. Nonetheless, the artist could not resist touches of daily life in late seventeenth-century Milan, with sightseers apparently reclining opposite the colonnade to appreciate its artistry.
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Torre, Carlo, -1679
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Il ritratto di Milano : diviso in tre libri / colorito da Carlo Torre ... ; nel quale vengono descritte tutte le antichità e modernità, che vedeuansi, e che si vedono nella città di Milano, sì di sontuose fabbriche, quanto di pittura, e di scultura : con varie narrazioni istoriche appartenenti à gesti di principi, duchi, e cittandini
Publisher
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In Milano : Per Federico Agnelli Scult. & Stamp.
Date Created
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1674
Contributor
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Busca, Antonio, 1625-1686
Garavaglia, Joseph
Biffi, Andrea
Biffi, Filippo
Agnelli, Federico, 1626-1702
Type
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Engravings
Identifier
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Special Collections de Beer Ib/1674/T
Spatial Coverage
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Milan
Great cities of Italy
Travel
Writing
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Dr Hocken's Original Pictures
Description
An account of the resource
This showcase offers a representational sample of the pictures that Dr T. M. Hocken gave in trust for the people of New Zealand. At the time of his death in 1910 he had amassed 437 pictorial items, a collection of more than 4,000 printed volumes, as well as photographs, manuscripts and maps. Collectively these items are the Hocken Library’s founding gift and Dr Hocken’s abiding interest in the history of Southern New Zealand continues to shape what the Hocken collects today and preserves for the future benefit of researchers.
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Dr T. M. Hocken
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Title
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John, Earl of Sandwich.
Alternative Title
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John, Earl of Sandwich. Engrav’d by J. Corner. Published by J. Sewell Cornhill. European Mag. n.d.
Subject
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Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: John Montagu fourth Earl of Sandwich, 1718-92, First Lord of the Admiralty, after whom Cook called the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Island. T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki.
Creator
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unknown
Source
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Dr T.M. Hocken’s Collection.
Extent
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175 x 112 mm
Medium
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engraving on paper
Language
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eng
Type
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Image
Still Image
Engravings
Identifier
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Hocken Pictorial Collections - 12,865
a2496
Temporal Coverage
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Nineteenth century
Provenance
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Dr T.M. Hocken’s Collection.
Dr Hocken's Original Pictures
Engravings
Image
Nineteenth century
Portraits
Still Image
Works of Art
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Dr Hocken's Original Pictures
Description
An account of the resource
This showcase offers a representational sample of the pictures that Dr T. M. Hocken gave in trust for the people of New Zealand. At the time of his death in 1910 he had amassed 437 pictorial items, a collection of more than 4,000 printed volumes, as well as photographs, manuscripts and maps. Collectively these items are the Hocken Library’s founding gift and Dr Hocken’s abiding interest in the history of Southern New Zealand continues to shape what the Hocken collects today and preserves for the future benefit of researchers.
Contributor
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Dr T. M. Hocken
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Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand.
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The Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand. Engraved by W.W. Alais from a photograph. n.d.
Subject
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Grey, George, Sir, 1812-1898
Portraits
Description
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Lower right (l.r.) in ink: T.M. Hocken.
Creator
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unknown
Source
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“In between these groups are placed… portraits of Hooker, Stokes, Selwyn, Wohler, [sic] Sir Wm Martin, Sir George Grey, the first surveyor,...” (“The Hocken Collection.” [?Otago Daily Times,] ? March 1910)
Extent
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215 x 167 mm
Medium
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engraving on paper
Language
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eng
Type
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Image
Still Image
Engravings
Identifier
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Hocken Pictorial Collections - 12,925
a60
Temporal Coverage
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Nineteenth century
Provenance
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Dr T.M. Hocken’s Collection.
Dr Hocken's Original Pictures
Engravings
Image
Nineteenth century
Portraits
Still Image
Works of Art
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A name given to the resource
Dr Hocken's Original Pictures
Description
An account of the resource
This showcase offers a representational sample of the pictures that Dr T. M. Hocken gave in trust for the people of New Zealand. At the time of his death in 1910 he had amassed 437 pictorial items, a collection of more than 4,000 printed volumes, as well as photographs, manuscripts and maps. Collectively these items are the Hocken Library’s founding gift and Dr Hocken’s abiding interest in the history of Southern New Zealand continues to shape what the Hocken collects today and preserves for the future benefit of researchers.
Contributor
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Dr T. M. Hocken
Still Image
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Title
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Dr Hawkesworth.
Subject
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Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773
Portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Dr John Hawkesworth, L.L.D. 1715-1773, Edited Voyages to the Southern Hemisphere including Captain Cook’s First Voyage. T.M. Hocken; label: Na te Hakena Tenei Tiki.
Creator
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unknown
Extent
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177 x 114 mm
Medium
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engraving on paper
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Still Image
Engravings
Identifier
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Hocken Pictorial Collections - 12,926
a6124
Provenance
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Dr T.M. Hocken’s Collection.
Dr Hocken's Original Pictures
Engravings
Hawkesworth
Image
Portraits
Still Image
-
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388
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600
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3
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Title
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Dr Hocken's Original Pictures
Description
An account of the resource
This showcase offers a representational sample of the pictures that Dr T. M. Hocken gave in trust for the people of New Zealand. At the time of his death in 1910 he had amassed 437 pictorial items, a collection of more than 4,000 printed volumes, as well as photographs, manuscripts and maps. Collectively these items are the Hocken Library’s founding gift and Dr Hocken’s abiding interest in the history of Southern New Zealand continues to shape what the Hocken collects today and preserves for the future benefit of researchers.
Contributor
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Dr T. M. Hocken
Still Image
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Sir Piercy Brett K.t.
Miller sculp.
Subject
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Portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Sir Piercy Brett, 1709-81. Admiral, Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty. Cook named after him Cape Brett and Piercy Island or rock at the entrance to the Bay of Islands. T.M. Hocken.
Table Of Contents
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Sir Piercy Brett, 1709-1781,
Creator
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unknown
Extent
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114 x 80 mm
Medium
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engraving on paper
Type
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Image
Still Image
Engravings
Identifier
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Hocken Pictorial Collections - 12,965
a6372
Provenance
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Dr T.M. Hocken’s Collection.
Dr Hocken's Original Pictures
Engravings
Image
Portraits
Still Image
-
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Title
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Dr Hocken's Original Pictures
Description
An account of the resource
This showcase offers a representational sample of the pictures that Dr T. M. Hocken gave in trust for the people of New Zealand. At the time of his death in 1910 he had amassed 437 pictorial items, a collection of more than 4,000 printed volumes, as well as photographs, manuscripts and maps. Collectively these items are the Hocken Library’s founding gift and Dr Hocken’s abiding interest in the history of Southern New Zealand continues to shape what the Hocken collects today and preserves for the future benefit of researchers.
Contributor
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Dr T. M. Hocken
Still Image
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Title
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A Savage of New Zealand.
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A Savage of New Zealand. Warren sc. n.d.Journal of the Esperance.
Subject
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Voyages and travels
Maori (New Zealand people)
Portraits
Description
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Margin below image in ink: 1800.
Creator
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unknown
Source
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Dr T.M. Hocken’s Collection.
Extent
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151 x 106 mm
Medium
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engraving on paper
Type
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Image
Still Image
Engravings
Identifier
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Hocken Pictorial Collections - 13,009
a8990
Temporal Coverage
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Nineteenth century
Provenance
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Dr T.M. Hocken’s Collection.
Dr Hocken's Original Pictures
Engravings
Image
Maori (New Zealand people)
Nineteenth century
Portraits
Still Image
Voyages and travels
Works of Art
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Enlarging the prospects of happiness: European travel writing through the ages. Online exhibition
Description
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Discoveries of new places, customs and climates always fascinate. While few of us possess the stamina, courage or funds to undertake marvellous or exotic voyages, we eagerly await reports of the exploits of famous travellers. It is little surprise that National Geographic magazine enjoys one of the largest readerships in English. Accounts of travel appear to have been popular from the beginning, though readers in earlier ages clearly sought different sorts of enlightenment expressed in quite different styles. This highly selective record of travel accounts over the past 500 years reveals both continuities and variations as readers explore new possibilities of worship, trade, social and political structures, and new ways of understanding their own place in the world.
Drawn primarily from the riches of the de Beer collection, with other material from special collections and Central Library holdings and from the Hocken Library and pictorial collections, this exhibition displays the remarkable breadth of the University's treasures. Moving outward from Rome as the centre of the European imagination, we traverse Europe through the mid-19th century, roam the Atlantic to the Americas and Africa, and finally conquer the Pacific in search of new territory and ideas. We witness travellers as pilgrims, explorers, diplomats and tourists. We encounter new creatures, renewed appreciation of domestic attractions, and a constant tension between fact and fiction. While the material displayed focuses primarily on works in English, similar publications appeared in every European language.
The exhibition curated by Dr Shef Rogers and was opened on Thursday 20 June 2002 at 5.30pm.
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A voyage of discovery (2)
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The Town of Valparaiso on the Coast of Chili
Description
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These two illustrations provide a concise summation of European associations with North and South America and of the range of Vancouver's explorations along the eastern shores of the Pacific. To the north is the vast unpeopled landscape of the Pacific northwest (and mountains hiding Northwest Passages), while to the south is the Spanish port of Valparaiso, where 'all conspired at once to announce, that we were again approaching towards the civilized world' (6.236). These images also aim for a high degree of verisimilitude, to complement Vancouver's constant quest for accuracy, a trait he may well have learned from his captain while sailing on Cook's second and third voyages.
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Vancouver, George, 1757-1798
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A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world : in which the coast of North-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's command, principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, in the Discovery, sloop of war, and armed tender, Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver.
Publisher
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London : Printed for John Stockdale
Date Created
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1801
Contributor
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Vancouver, John, -1828?
Type
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Engravings
Text
Identifier
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Special Collections: de Beer Eb/1801/V
North & South America
Travel
Writing