Live Auction 12248Topographical Pictures
Captain Richard Aldworth Oliver, R.N. (1811-1889)
Lot 5

Captain Richard Aldworth Oliver, R.N. (1811-1889)

Sketches in New Zealand

Closed15 December 2016

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GBP 17,500

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Captain Richard Aldworth Oliver, R.N. (1811-1889)
Sketches in New Zealand
twenty watercolours and drawings of Maoris and New Zealand scenery, one titled '"Otago" Native Houses near the heads', one inscribed and dated 'Hutt NZ / Octr 3 48', one portrait titled 'E'Toa', one river landscape indistinctly inscribed 'Wangan..'
pencil and watercolour on paper
unframed
11 x 14 7/8in. (28 x 37.7cm.) and smaller
with a large collection of unframed watercolours and drawings of British and Continental scenery including subjects taken in Turkey (1830's), Italy (1843), the Pyrenees and Madeira

By descent from the artist to the present owner.

Specialist note

The subjects include 6 watercolour studies of Maoris, 3 pencil sketches of Maoris, a watercolour of the stage erected at the Maori feast for Governor Sir George Grey at Kerikeri, Bay of Islands, September 1849 (on the reverse of a watercolour study of Maori girls), a pencil study for the artist's watercolour of Te Rangiheata addressing Governor Grey at Waikena, 8 landscapes, probably all New Zealand subjects, and one pencil sketch of a Maori canoe.