![A representation of the surrender of the island of Otaheite to Captain Wallis by the supposed Queen Oberea [Purea]](../../biogs/gallery/objects/hawk1447_t.jpg) |
| Title: | A representation of the surrender of the island of Otaheite to Captain Wallis by the supposed Queen Oberea [Purea] |
| Type: | Engraving |
| Description: | Engraving by John Hall (1739-1797), commissioned for inclusion in volume one of John Hawkesworth's Account of the Voyages Undertaken in the South Hemisphere'. While titled, 'A representation of the surrender of the island of Otaheite to Captain Wallis by the supposed Queen [Purea]', what is actually depicted is Purea's seeking to use Wallis to further the ambitions of her family by establishing Taio with him. |
| Location: | South Seas |
| Digital Versions: | Shockwave Flash (.swf) - requires plug-in |
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| Title: | The cession of the district of Matavai in the island of Otaheite to Captain James Wilson |
| Type: | Acquatint Engraving |
| Description: | This famous engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815) was commissioned by the London Missionary Society, from an earlier painting by Robert Smirke (1752-1845).
The image depicts high ranking Maohi, including a young paramount kin title-holder and a high ranking woman seated on the shoulders of attendants. The bodies of kin-title holders and their close relatives were so sacred that by walking to the meeting with Wilson's party they would have rendered tapu all the land they journeyed through.
Two men and a woman appear with the upper halves of their bodies uncovered, signfying the chiefs of the Matavai district's establishing Taio with the missionaries. The gesture is reciprocated by a young man in Wilson's party. |
| Location: | National Library of Australia |
| Physical description: | plate mark 60 x 78 cm. |
| Digital Versions: | jpeg file |
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| Title: | A representation of the surrender of the island of Otaheite to Captain Wallis by the supposed Queen |
| Type: | Stipple Engraving |
| Description: | Copy of Hall's engraving by Johann C. G. Fritzch, appeared in the 1774 Berlin edition of Hawkesworth's Voyages, entitled Geschicht der See-Reisen und Entdeckungen in S'd-Meer welche' |
| Digital Versions: | jpeg file |
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| Title: | Capt. Samuel Wallis of HMS Dolphin being received by the Queen of Otaheite, July 1767 |
| Type: | Stipple Engraving |
| Description: | Engraving by John Hall (1739-1797), commissioned for inclusion in volume one of John Hawkesworth's Account of the Voyages Undertaken in the South Hemisphere'. The engraving was originally titled, 'A representation of the surrender of the island of Otaheite to Captain Wallis by the supposed Queen [Purea]'. However, what the engraving depicts is Purea's seeking to use Wallis to further the ambitions of her family by establishing Taio with Wallis. |
| Location: | National Library of Australia |
| Physical description: | plate mark 23.8 x 33 cm. |
| Digital Versions: | jpeg file |
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