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Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962 :[The attack on the Pukekohe East Church stockade,...
Date: 1863 - 1921
By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962; Cowan, James, 1870-1943
Reference: A-138-043
Description: Shows armed Maori surrounding a barricaded church This drawing was made for James Cowan's "New Zealand wars" , volume 1 (1922) Inscriptions: Signed: A H Messenger Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 230 x 350 mm Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts and Archives, 1979.
Messenger, Arthur Herbert 1877-1962 :Taupo, Massacre Bay. 1921 [i.e 1844]
Date: 1844 - 1921
By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962; Barnicoat, John Wallis, 1814-1905; Cowan, James, 1870-1943
Reference: A-173-015
Description: View at Taupo Point, just south of Separation Point, Golden Bay, showing Taupo Pa with palisades and buildings and a bush-clad knoll beyond, the sea and several inshore islands. Depending upon the extent of Messenger's knowledge, the boat anchored off the beach is probably a Deal boat, and the mizzen was a "standing lug". The foresail was a "dipping lug" (see note below, and letter from Pat W Win, AT 13/14/1, 24 December 1999) A copy of John Wallis Barnicoat's eye-witness drawing "Taupo, Massacre Bay, March 1844", negative 11570 1/2. The original drawing is in a private collection but the Library has a photograph. Probably drawn for James Cowan's The New Zealand Wars, but not used. Two Deal boats and six Deal boat men were brought to New Zealand by the Nelson Preliminary Expedition which entered Nelson Haven in November 1841. One of the boat men was James Smith Cross who became Nelson's second harbourmaster. (See letter from Pat W Win, AT 13/14/1, 24 December 1999). Other Titles - Taupo Pa, Golden Bay Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 114 x 256 mm
Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : View from Picton, looking toward the Marlborough Sounds
Date: ca 1896
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 11
By: Cowan, James, 1870-1943
Reference: PAColl-6304-07
Description: View from Picton, looking toward the Marlborough Sounds, taken by James Cowan, circa 1896. Note on back of original print reads: Picton 1896 Old fileprint header reads: Picton 1903 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
Artist unknown :Port Nicholson in 1846.
Date: 1846
By: Cowan, James, 1870-1943
Reference: A-138-062
Description: Shows the paddlesteamer H.M.P.S. "Driver" in broadside view at right, and the barque "London" in broadside view at left. On the shore, visible between the two ships are several buildings and the flagstaff at Flagstaff Hill. Notes on verso indicate that the artist may have been a crew member on board the barque "London". Other Titles - London Barque. Barrett pub. Maori chief. Prisoners on board. H. M. P. S. Driver Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - Port Nicholson in 1846; Recto - beneath image - Joseph Gibson Commdr & 3 officers. Wife , Sisters./ London Bq. 480 tons a big little ship. / Year 1846 / Barret' Pub / Maori Chief prisoners on board - H.M.P.S. Driver with Life Boats on top of paddle boxes.; Verso - centre - Joined "London" Oct 1844 / appointed for 5 years to Joseph Gibson - / 1. Voyage to Bombay - / 2. Ditto to Sydney - put into Mother Bank Christmas 1845 - on a/c of gales in Channel - there about 2 weeks - then had a [start?] left for Sydney - discharged our cargo then sailed for Wellington with Cattle Related to sketch, possibly by Matthew Clayton, held at ATL A-078-015. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and indelible pencil on watercolour paper, 195 x 330 mm. Transfers: Transferred from the Cowan papers in MSS & A..
Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962 :View from Paterangi, looking towards Mangapiko Ri...
Date: 1864 - 1921
By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962; Cowan, James, 1870-1943
Reference: A-138-036-2
Description: View identifying Waiari, from the period of the New Zealand Wars Waikato-Tauranga Campaign in 1864. On the same sheet at A-138-036-1 and pasted to A-138-036: Map of Waiari Pa. Probably drawn as an illustration for James Cowan's 'The New Zealand Wars' (Wellington, 1922) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 64 x 60 mm
Woolnoth, Alfred, 1849-1897: Tauranga ita [sic] Pah / copied from a sketch taken on the...
Date: [1869?]
By: Woolnoth, Alfred, 1849-1897; Cowan, James, 1870-1943
Reference: A-138-027
Description: A fenced pa with three soldiers and four horses in the foreground, one horse riderless. Another horse is on the ground, as is one soldier. Ink inscriptions in another hand supply comments on the copying, and identify features and events, e. g. "Wright"; "Big Kereopa came out with a long-handled tomahawk"; "Maxwell shot dead:. Shows also W. Lingard on horse at left. Title from pencil inscription An ink note in the right border, alongside a drawing of a palm tree states 'Wrong! This was a gnarled old ngaio with very thick branches'. Another very similar drawing, pencil and a similar size, with the same title and attribution on offer at International Art Centre auction, Auckland, 22 October 2009, lot 109. Provenance given as Private collection, United Kingdom. Copyist described as Alfred Woolnoth. An Alfred Woolnoth was living and working as an artist in Edinburgh at the right date According to James Cowan in The New Zealand wars, Vol II, p. 278, Christopher Maling was present at the skirmish on 25 January, 1869. He is known to have done drawings in New Zealand and could possibly be the artist whom Woolnoth was copying Other Titles - Taurangaika Pa. Tauranga Ika Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, image 156 x 232 mm, on sheet 210 x 290 mm Transfers: Transferred from: MS Papers 39 (Cowan collection). Processing information: Names updated May 2024 following information from a staff member.