IMAGE
Williams, John d 1905 :Wahapu, New Zealand. From a drawing by Major Bridge 58th Regiment. [1845?] / John Williams 58[th]
- Date
- 1845
- By
- Williams, John, -1905?; Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
- Reference
- C-030-016
- Description
Extensive view across a bay towards a beach and headland, with houses, barracks, a parade ground with redcoats drilling, the Red Ensign flag flying beside the largest house high on the hill to the left, the home of Colonel Cyprian Bridge. There are several small boats on the water. Nobby Island is on the left. Other buildings along the waterfront, from left, include barracks, in the centre the magazine of the 58th Regiment, a sentry box (set back from the waterfront), the hospital, the canteen and the officers' residence on the right
The title on Bridge's pencil sketch (f-E-320-014) identifies his own house 'where I was quartered 3 years and a half, the parade ground, officers' houses and our pleasure boats in the foreground'.
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signature & 58; Recto - beneath image - Title
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour 322 x 538 mm
Provenance: The sketchbook was acquired by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull in July 1893.
Transfers: Removed from sketchbook E-320-f, along with C-018-020, an ink and wash version of the same view. Had been folded to fit in the sketchbook. Still in the sketchbook are Cyprian Bridge's "View of my house and cantonment at Wahapu" (p.14), probably the drawing copied by Williams; also on p. 12 and 13, 2 pencil and wash details of the same view, either by Bridge or Williams..
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Watercolours, Works of art, Watercolour 322 x 538 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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