[A portrait of Poedua] [picture] / [John Webber]
- Bib ID:
- 321629
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Webber, John, 1752-1793
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- [ca. 1782]
- 1 painting : oil on canvas ; 144.7 x 93.5 cm.
- Series:
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK5192.
- Summary:
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Portrait of Poedua (Poedooa, Poetua), daughter of Oree (Orio, Orea), described as either the King of Ulaietea, or Chief of the district of Haamanino in Raiatea.
- Notes:
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- On loan to the National Gallery of Australia.
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK5192.
- The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, holds a similar portrait of Poedooa dated Nov. 1777 (Joppien and Smith, 3.149)
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-134111744
- Exhibited: Terra Australis, I.C.C.A., 1988; Swiss artists in Australia, Art Gallery of N.S.W., 1991; Discerning Eye, RNK Collection, Canberra 1992; Sydney 1992; Melbourne 1992-1993.
- T520.
- Cited In:
- Joppien and Smith, 3.150.
- Subject:
- Exhibited:
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- Exhibited: "Treasures Gallery", National Library of Australia, 12 December 2012 - 7 July 2013.
- Exhibited:'Cook & Omai: The Cult of the South Seas', NLA 2001
- Copyright:
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Out of Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1793
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1782
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