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Robley, Horatio Gordon 1840-1930 :Earthworks and fence of the Gate Pa looking east from the breach. Early morn, 30 April, 1864.
- Date
- 1864
- By
- Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930
- Reference
- A-033-009
- Description
A view inside Gate Pa, Tauranga, after British forces had taken it over, with soldiers standing on top of the trenches and a few wounded Maori seated or lying in the bottom of the trenches. The view looks past the palisades out to sea. There are two stretcher-bearers to the right taking out the wounded. The two wounded Maori in the right-hand ditch are a young man wounded in the arm and hand, and, to his left, Rewiti, wounded in the thigh.
Appears to be original sketch of which A-033-007 is a copy
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [title]; Verso - [Disposition of fortifications explained in note on back of sketch]; Recto - bottom right - H G Robley
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Pen and wash drawing 230 x 280 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Pen and wash drawing 230 x 280 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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