Places

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-105/106

Description: Shows several labelled ships in the harbour. The Sandfly (at right) is a paddlesteamer. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil 100 x 320 mm.

Date: 1864

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: A-033-007

Description: View of the trenches at Gate Pa, Tauranga, looking east, the front of the pa to the left, the rear to the right, after its capture by British forces in April 1864. European soldiers standing guard, two carrying a stretcher in the background, a rifle and parts of the broken palisade lying in the foreground, and wounded and dead Maori men visible in the trenches, including Reweti, in a trench to the right, facing the viewer. A tunnel on the left is marked as a covered way, and a tall pole in the background, on a slant is the flagpole. A low land formation in the background to the left is noted as Maungatapu cliffs with cemetery. Tauranga Harbour can be seen in the background Very similar to A-033-009. Robley made many copies of this view Another such view in Cowan's New Zealand Wars has Robley's additional explanatory text around the outside (neg 10985 1/2). The section along the left, to the left of the trench and inside the palisade is a covered passage leading to rifle pits. The figure lying in the left trench is described as 'dead Maori on blanket'. The figure in the right-hand trench is described as 'bearded wounded Maori' and 'Sticks knocked from the palisade' and 'sticks of palisade scathed by shot', '68th sentry on the higher part of the Pa', as well as 'fallen flagstaff in rear' are noted. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [title]; Recto - bottom left - Front; Recto - bottom right - Rear; Verso - Disposition of fortifications and other features explained in notes on back of sketch, including the following: Looking east. The flagstaff. Maungatapu cliffs [with] cemetery. A covered way. Reweti wounded and another. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen and wash drawing 180 x 255 mm

Date: 1864

Reference: MapColl-832.16hkm/[ca.1864]/Acc.1869

Description: Hand drawn military map of the area from the Waimapu River, including the Tauranga-Rotorua Road to Okauia, Irihanga, Wairoa River and Tauranga Harbour. Includes roads and tracks, one of which is marked as 'my scouting track - there and back close on forty miles'. Gate Pa is marked, settlements, rivers and some roads are named. Scenes of action are marked as crossed swords and some battle sites are named - Gate Pa, Te Ranga, Oropi, Waehi, Whakamarama. Directional arrows point to Rotorua and Okauia. Includes some hachures, sites of clearings and a location of a house. Title partly taken from the pencilled heading, believed to have been added at a later date, and the catalogue card. Pencilled title of map is written along the top edge and on reverse: [Sketch map of country around Gate Pa ... ca. 1864] believed to have been added at a later date. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil, coloured pencil on paper, linen backed, coloured, 19.7 x 21 cm.

Date: 1865 - 1866

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: E-372-f-019-1

Description: Interior view of the pa, with a group of Maori men around a fire in the foreground, two holding spears and two with guns, and other small groups standing and seated in the background near dwellings. A flagpole or signal pole in the background Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 48, 1866, p. 189 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Initials M J Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 250 x 180 mm

Date: 1864

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: A-033-011

Description: A three-quarter length portrait of Taratoa seated on a hillside in front of a palisade fence on the skyline 60 paces away. A flag flies on the flagpole by the fence. The flag has a red background, with (top left to bottom right) a Christian cross, an inverted new moon, and a 5-pointed star. Taratoa wears a rural European grey smock and bark (grey?) neckerchief. Based on a photograph. Robley is not thought to have met Taratoa Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - H G Robley; Recto - bottom left - The flagstaff 60 paces in rear; Verso - Portrait of Taratoa lay preacher (Selwyn), a Ngaiterangi chief killed at Te Ranga 21 June 64 / whose name is on the RAWIRI monument at Te Papa cemetry / who was Maori commander [may refer to Rawiri]. A window at Lichfield Cathedral placed by Bishop Selwyn to this lay preacher who drew up the humane order for fighting; as to protecting wounded men and bodies of the dead from desecration (as had lately happened at Te Ahu Ahu fight). (old native manner there)(at Te Ahu Ahu Captain Lloyds 57th Regt head was cut off, and some of the mens and Victorians History; Verso - top centre - [Labelled sketch of flag] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 230 x 183 mm. Transfers: May have been transferred from Robley papers in Manuscripts and Archives..

Date: 1864

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-433-002

Description: The top image shows a view of the graves of Lieut-Col. Booth and officers and men of the 43rd Regt, killed at Tauranga. Mount Maunganui in background, with ships Esk, Harrier and Jason in harbour. Based on a drawing by E A Williams. The lower images shows British troops in the foreground behind trees, and in a trench leading up towards a hilltop pa, where a British flag can be seen flying. The smoke of gunfire can be seen from several points around the pa. Other Titles - Pa Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on page 398 x 274 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, May 2010.

Date: 1865 - 1866

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: PUBL-0033-1866-417

Description: A large group of Maori men performing a haka, shown at a moment of leaping in the air. They are carrying a mixture of muskets and spears, and dressed in mixed European and Maori clothing. They are observed by a group of European and Maori men and women, with the artist's self portrait sketching near the centre in the foreground. In the background are low hills of Tauranga with several European buildings and a few military tents. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 225 mm

Date: 1864

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-064-024

Description: Shows a fenced burial ground with 4 headstones and a cross, on a headland facing Mt Maunganui in the distance. Inscription on verso of backing paper: Sandy Point / St. of Magellan / 18 to 21 December 1881. / Buoy indicating wreck of H.M.S. "Doterel" 1881 (blown up by accident). Other Titles - Tauranga NZ Other Titles - Graves of officers & men who fell at the attack on Gate Pa, New Zealand on 29 April 1864. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - HS (monogram in ink); Recto - bottom left - (In ink): 1862? changed to 1863 or 1864 or 5?; Recto - beneath image - (On mount in ink): Burial ground at Tauranga of those killed at the Gate Pah Tepapa on 29 April 1864/ Commander Hay of H.M.S. Harrier. 4 Officers of the 43Regt & Seamen & Soldiers of 43 & 68 Regt.; Verso - centre - Graves of officers & men who fell at the attack on the Gate Pah, New Zealand on 29 April 1864 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 242 x 372 mm, mounted on sheet 305 390 mm.

Date: 1864

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: A-033-012

Description: Shows Judea Redoubt close to Gate Pa, Bay of Plenty. Pitched tents on the left and scattered figures in the foreground. There is washing hanging from a clothesline close to the small raupo huts on the right. Mount Maunganui is in the background. Robley named the site from Huria, a Maori village alongside. Explanatory note on back of sketch This watercolour is thought to be the only existing view of Judea Redoubt Other Titles - Judea Redoubt Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 203 x 280 mm

Date: 1887

By: Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927

Reference: A-109-052

Description: Shows a small Gothic-style church, flanked by two rows of military tents Possibly after an original by James Crowe Richmond Extended Title - Published in: Gudgeon, T W. The Defenders of New Zealand. Possibly from original by J C Richmond (cf. A-048-011; Ngatapa...) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 166 x 242 mm

Date: 1865 - 1866

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: PUBL-0033-1866-189

Description: Interior view of the pa, with a group of Maori men around a fire in the foreground, two holding spears and two with guns, and other small groups standing and seated in the background near dwellings. A flagpole or signal pole in the background Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 250 x 180 mm

Date: 23 April 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-103/104

Description: Shows camp near township and shore. At right are several boats on the water, and at centre background is Mount Maunganui. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash, 100 x 320 mm.

Date: 1867

By: Atcherley, Henry Mount Langton, active 1860-1903; King, F A (Mrs), active 1949

Reference: A-196-011

Description: Shows Opotiki volunteer rangers firing and crossing a stream towards defended palisades at the top of the opposite bank, with native forest beyond Title on back Other Titles - Waimana Gorge Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 142 x 228 mm

Date: 1868

From: Artist and photographers unknown :[Watercolours of the Bay of Plenty and thermal regions, Atlantic and Indian Ocean islands, and Ireland; photographs of Dover, a Belgian monument, Ireland and New Zealand bush, 1866-1868]

Reference: A-443-015-1

Description: Shows a view of the monument commemorating 26 men of the 43rd Regiment who were killed in action or died of wounds received at Pukehinahina (Gate Pa) and Te Ranga in mid-1864. The monument itself is in the foreground on the right, with the white pickets of the cemetery showing in front of it. A number of trees, including cabbage trees and flax bushes, stand prominently to its left. From the headland Mount Maunganui can be seen in the background. Although not the same scene, this might usefully be compared to Henry Ambrose Scrivener's Burial ground at Tauranga New Zealand of those killed at the Gate Pah... 1864 (B-064-024) and Andrew Thomas H. Carbery's Cemetery at Te Papa, Tauranga (E-248-q-096), which show similar views prior to the monument's erection. Other Titles - Gate Pa Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Monument of the 43rd killed at the Gate Pah Tauranga [in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 134 x 245 mm