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RICHARD ALDWORTH OLIVER AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1830s-1860sA collection of sketches and artefacts from the artist’s family (Lots 4-7)The son of Admiral Robert Oliver, Richard Aldworth Oliver entered the navy in 1825 and served in the Mediterranean on the Queen in 1842-4 before being appointed to command the Fly in Australian and New Zealand waters in 1847. The following lots include sketches taken in New Zealand (lot 5), and on his voyage to New Caledonia and the New Hebrides in 1849 (as escort to Selwyn’s schooner Undine) (lot 7), as well as sketches taken on his voyaging around the world, from his early travels in and around the Mediterranean (included in lot 5) to India, Java, Penang and Jamaica (included in lot 6). A collection of his artefacts which again track his voyaging, includes souvenirs from New Zealand, the Pacific and Guyana (lot 4).Oliver published A Series of Lithographic Drawings, from Sketches in New Zealand in 1852: ‘Oliver’s book was intended as the first of an ambitious, though never realized, series of publications of lithographs of New Zealand, Maori, and Pacific subjects, ‘to range in size and character with Roberts’ Spain and Miss Eden’s India.’ These were to be compiled from sketches made by Oliver while he was in New Zealand and the Pacific from 1847-1851. Oliver was neither a professional artist nor a draughtsman. He was the captain of H.M.S. Fly, which was engaged mainly in the first hydrographic survey of New Zealand, though letters and entries in his private journal indicate that he assisted in the administration of the colony too, by accompanying Governor Grey on diplomatic missions among Maori and on tours of inspection of the European settlements. ‘ (L. Bell, Colonial Constructs, European Images of Maori 1840-1914, Auckland, 1992, p.30)Oliver’s New Zealand sketches are amongst the first pictorial surveys of Maori subjects following European settlement, closely contemporary with the work of the artist George French Angas in the 1840s, and follow the work of Samuel Brees (the New Zealand Company’s surveyor) whose Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand was published in 1847.
Captain Richard Aldworth Oliver, R.N. (1811-1889)
Artefacts collected by Richard Aldworth Oliver on his travels
細節
Captain Richard Aldworth Oliver, R.N. (1811-1889)
Artefacts collected by Richard Aldworth Oliver on his travels
a Maori 'taiaha' (quarter staff), 52 ½in. (133.4cm.) long; a Maori greenstone shard, 10 ½in. (26.7cm.) long; a Fijian club, 41 1/8in. (202.2cm.) long; and a club from British Guyana, 28 5/8in. (72.7cm.) long
Artefacts collected by Richard Aldworth Oliver on his travels
a Maori 'taiaha' (quarter staff), 52 ½in. (133.4cm.) long; a Maori greenstone shard, 10 ½in. (26.7cm.) long; a Fijian club, 41 1/8in. (202.2cm.) long; and a club from British Guyana, 28 5/8in. (72.7cm.) long
來源
By descent from Captain Richard Aldworth Oliver, R.N. (1811-1889) to the present owner.
拍場告示
Please note the Fijian club measures 41 1/8in. (104.5cm.).
榮譽呈獻
Helena Ingham