IMAGE
Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :Utu [ca 1957]
- Date
- 1809 - 1956 - 1958
- Reference
- B-140-019
- Description
Six-panelled account of the capture and blowing up of the Boyd in Whangaroa Harbour in 1809 in retaliation for its captain's whipping of a local chief known as George
These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore.
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm.
Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jenny Gibbs, of Auckland, in 1995.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s]. / Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Conjectural works, Cartoons (Commentary), Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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