Flags - New Zealand - Taranaki Region

Date: 1847

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-040

Description: Shows St Mary's Anglican church, in the foreground. The Sugar Loaf Islands are in the left background cf A229/10; watercolour of same scene. St Mary's Anglican church was completed in 1847. Crawford's other sketches of New Plymouth are dated 1847. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 177 x 261 mm

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-028

Description: Looking north along the coastline towards Maunganui, with ships in the harbour, infantry and cavalry on the beach to the left, a Maori canoe and a rowboat in the foreground, the rowboat being hauled out to sea off the mudflats by sailors. Boxes and barrels are on the shore and military tents can be seen in the distance, with a redoubt on a foreland further off Copied by Hamley from a drawing of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, 'The beach at Tauranga, 26 April 1864' in the Hocken Library, p. 31 of Williams' sketchbook (now dismantled and separately mounted). Williams also used his sketch as the basis for a larger watercolour 'Tauranga, New Zealand, 23 April 1864' in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on buff paper, 172 x 249 mm

Date: 1864

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: A-472-010

Description: Raised redoubt in front of a cloud-ringed Mount Taranaki. Two long buildings and a flag flying are shown on top of the redoubt. A dwelling at the base of the redoubt has smoke coming from the chimney. Four figures can be seen, including a soldier with rifle in the foreground. A similar image (by S Percy Smith) was published on page 17 of Cowan's 'The adventures of Kimble Bent'. Possibly by Messenger. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Sentry Hill Redoubt, Taranaki [in ink]; Recto - beneath image - 1864 [in pencil]; Verso - top right - 3 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 130 x 210 mm

Date: 1879

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: A-472-021

Description: Ink and pencil drawing published with the caption 'The Normanby redoubt (Taranaki), 1879' and source credit 'From a sketch by Mr. James Robson', on page 482 of James Cowan, 'The New Zealand Wars' (1956 edition). Depicts a redoubt built by settlers at Normanby (Matariki), near Ketemarae, Taranaki. Annotated "A frontier post", "For 'Enzed Junior' to go in Cowan's story 'Frontiersmen'", and "The Settlers' Redoubt at Ketemarae, Taranaki, 1879." This image was published in Cowan's 'The New Zealand Wars, Vol II'. This redoubt was built by the settlers at Normanby (Matariki), near Ketemarae, in Taranaki, during the critical times on the Waimate Plains. It was afterwards garrisoned by an Armed Constabulary detachment, and a watch-tower was built as shown below. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper, 105 x 168 mm, mounted on cardboard, 140 x 200 mm. Transfers: From MS-Papers-11946-207..

Date: ca 1892-1906

Reference: PAColl-7321

Description: Photographs of: a panorama of Toko taken from the top of Bruce's Hill February 1906; the road through Toko showing the cleared land and some houses ca 1900; pack horses being loaded in the mud 1895; the New Zealand flag being raised in front of a crowd around some speakers 19 November 1900; two of men standing amongst planks in the first sawmill in Toko 1893; men next to logs at the Tariki Road Sawmill their names - Rudkin, Bridgeman, Beesley, Brosky, Cranen and Wilson ca 1900; the Tariki Road Sawmill showing the rail tracks leading to it; two of the children of Toko School in 1894 and 1896; three of school children tending the gardens and planting trees at the school 1900; group of Toko school children under some trees 1900; and the children of Toko Sunday School 1897. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003366 to 003380 Quantity: 14 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: B-103-011

Description: Mount Taranaki in the background, with the tents and flags of the 65th Regiment (commanded by the artist), several soldiers and a large gun on wheels in the foreground. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - bottom left - Camp Waitara Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 180 x 270 mm

Date: 1861 - 1922

From: Cowan, James :The New Zealand wars. Wellington, Government Printer, 1922.

By: Bates, Henry Stratton, 1836-1918

Reference: PUBL-0054-1-198

Description: A small wooden stockade with gun-holes, a gate, two watch-towers and the roofs of two other buildings, and a flagpole. The stockade is on top of a hill. One armed soldier is patrolling the perimeter, another watches through a telescope from inside the stockade, while two men in the foreground are also on guard and a third is delving into the contents of a barrel. Two other guards are visible in the right distance beyond the stockade walls. The location of the original for this book illustration is not known. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of watercolour (book illustration)

Date: 1863

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-026

Description: Bell Block stockade on the right with several other buildings and a flag-pole, on a small hill overlooking a plain, with another building nearby, smoke from burnt out buildings in the distance and Mount Taranaki in the background. Copied by Hamley from the drawings of his superior officer, E. A. Williams. There are two possible originals for this work, one in the Hocken Library entitled "Bell Block House 15 June 1864", the other in the Turnbull, entitled "Bell Block. 14 June (ref. E-349-a-127/128) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 132 x 211 mm

Date: 1856

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-006

Description: View of New Plymouth from the shoreline, looking south-east towards several houses and their gardens, the fenced redoubt with buildings and flags on Marsland Hill and the cone of Mount Taranaki in the centre distance. A large building on the right may be the New Zealand Company Store. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title. Also, lower right: 'William Strutt del.t 1856' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 200 x 290 mm

Date: 1863

By: Arden, Francis Hamar, 1841-1899

Reference: A-173-010

Description: Shows blockhouse, with two flanking towers, stockade, flagstaffs, and military huts; Mount Egmont in the background Similar to illustration based on drawing by Arden in Cowan, J. The New Zealand Wars. Wellington, 1922 v. 1, p. 161 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 227 x 338 mm

Date: 1864

From: [Warre, Henry James] 1819-1898 :[Sketchbook]

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: E-294-010/011

Description: Mount Taranaki to the right in the middle distance. In the foreground is the earth and palisade fortification at Pukerangiora Pa, Te Arei, on the Waitara River. Two European soldiers are in the trenches, overlooking the wooded valley below. To the left, beyond the palisade are the the Maori dwellings of the pa. The Union Jack is flying on a flagpole in the centre. The National Library of Australia holds a watercolour from a similar angle, entitled 'The interior (or rather exterior works) of the rebel pah at Te Arei' (photograph held) showing the trenches and Maori firing at the European soldiers climbing the steep hill to the right. The view is presumably a reconstruction. Extended Title - From: Warre, Henry. [Sketchbook ] 1864-1865. p. 10 to 11 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 97 x 345 mm (double page spread)

Date: 1860

By: Harris, Edwin, 1810?-1895; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: C-030-010

Description: Shows the township seen from Marsland Hill with the harbour and Sugar Loaf Rocks in the background and St Mary's Church with the beginnings of the new additions, started in 1860, in the foreground. Also various regiments (including 40th?) and encampments near church, military hospitals, Marsland Hotel, and various other churches. cf. Taranaki Museum's watercolour and pencil drawings of the same scene, and Hocken's col. lithographs, all signed by Edwin Harris, Harris may have copied Gold, and this painting has been attributed to Gold in the past. See Otago Daily Times, 9 Jan 1982, p. 30 for further confirmation of attribution The lithographic copy of this image in St Mary's Church, New Plymouth includes a key to various features. The title is New Plymouth from Marsland Hill. To the left of St Mary's, the two-storied building is Marsland Hotel and military Hospital. To the right, across the road, past the troops, the high-gabled single-storey building with a small porch by its door is the Maori Chapel. The two-storied building opposite the chapel is the Military Hospital. Further off to the right, the tallest building is the Wesleyan Chapel. The flagstaff on the hill between St Mary's and the sea marks the "sailors camp on Mt Elliott". Inscriptions: Mount verso - 40th Regiment, Taranaki, New Plymouth, N.Z. about 1840? Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 270 x 560 mm Provenance: George Page Cooper, Melbourne; purchased Joel's Auction, Melbourne, Nov. 1967.

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-020

Description: Looking south along the coastline towards Paritutu Rock, with the houses of New Plymouth along the foreshore, a flag flying above one building on the skyline and a rowboat being hauled ashore onto the beach. Copied by Hamley from a drawing of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, 'Beach and Sugar Loaves New Plymouth. [1864]' in the Hocken Library, in Williams' sketchbook (now dismantled and separately mounted). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 134 x 207 mm

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Godwin, William, active 1860s; Doile, John Lionel William, 1921-1991

Reference: C-059-009

Description: The small steamship Stormbird painted in a oval cartouche, with a leaf border, a stylised Mount Egmont in the background and the Sugar Loaf rocks to the right. New Plymouth is also visible. The Red Ensign is flying from the stern Walter Turnbull, father of Alexander Turnbull, returned to New Zealand from a visit to England aboard the 'Stormbird' in 1862. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Other Titles - Stormbird Inscriptions: bottom right - William Godwin. Auckland Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 317 x 424 mm

Date: 21 Feb 1907

From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district

Reference: 1/1-012229-G

Description: Crowd gathered for the opening of the Public Hospital in Stratford. Photographed by James McAllister on 21 February 1907. M2236 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-019

Description: Looking south along the coastline towards Marsland hill redoubt, New Plymouth, and Paritutu Rock. The houses of New Plymouth are to the right. Copied by Hamley from a drawing of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, 'Marsland Hill, N. P. 22 June [1864]' in the Hocken Library, p. 17 of Williams' sketchbook (now dismantled and separately mounted). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 135 x 207 mm

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911

Reference: E-047-q-021

Description: The fortification on Marsland Hill at New Plymouth with a large hospital tent in front and many Maori and Pakeha in front of it. In the foreground, groups of Maori and Pakeha, including a man performing a challenge, with an axe. The occasion appears to be festive, with many flags strung up and families present, possibly after the cessation of hostilities at New Plymouth. Based on a watercolour in Edward Arthur Williams' sketchbook, called Taranaki (E-348-131/13l). There is also a watercolour of the same subject called New Plymouth 18 June 1864 by E. A. Williams, held by the Hocken Library (neg 116167 1/2 in the Drawings and Prints photographic files). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 105 x 185 mm