A larger view (by another artist) of that celebrated natural curiosity, the perforated rock in Tolaga Bay, in New Zealand by Herman Diedrich Sporing & M. Sibelius, 1784, Herman Spöring Jr.

A larger view (by another artist) of that celebrated natural curiosity, the perforated rock in Tolaga Bay, in New Zealand by Herman Diedrich Sporing & M. Sibelius, 1784, Herman Spöring Jr.

Shows a maori in a cloak, holding a long spear in the centre foreground, and two europeans with another cloaked maori at the left. The view is from cook's cove looking through to tolaga bay. Through the arched hole in the rock, a stretch of water (tolaga bay), with a two-sailed waka is visible. From: anderson, g w ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages. London: alexander hogg, [1784] p. 44. After an earlier version published in hawkesworth, j. Voyages in the southern hemisphere. (london, ). Engraving, hand-coloured, 200 x 328 mm. Cropped from original (see "file history" below). Based on an original drawing of 1769. Compare sydney parkinson's pen and wash drawing of the same scene, the original in the collection of the british library. Date: 1784.
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Author: Sporing, Herman Diedrich (1733–71); Sibelius, M (d. 1785)Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/

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