View of Auckland Harbour, New Zealand, Taken During the Regatta of January 1862 (The Race of the Māori War Canoes)

Plate No. 1 from Frederick Rice Stack, Views in the Province of Auckland (London: Day and Son, 1862).

This is one of a set of six hand-coloured lithographs produced at the time when Auckland was still the capital of New Zealand. Stack was a professional army officer who was court-martialled for insubordination and later dismissed from military service. He made the sketches on which these lithographs were based in an attempt to support himself while awaiting the outcome of his appeal.