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Artist unknown :[Album of an officer. Enjoying a pipe and a book, South Taranaki or Wan...
Date: 1865
From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867
Reference: A-277-030
Description: The interior of a hut, with a soldier reading and smoking a pipe, the remains of a meal, including alcohol in front of him. He is seated at a large table, with a form along one side, suggesting that the room may be part of soldiers' barracks. Another room is visible to the left, with a thatched entranceway protruding into the main room. A sheathed sword and gun in its holster and another container are hanging from a beam and a skylight is propped open with a long stick. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash, 132 x 147 mm
Artist unknown :[Album of an officer. Military huts and tents, Wanganui? 1865]
Date: 1865
From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867
Reference: A-277-033
Description: A number of small military double-unit wooden huts and military tents on flat land, with hills in the background. Soldiers active around the camp. Possibly located in Wanganui, showing a regiment returning from active service in Taranaki. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 82 x 221 mm
Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Wanganui, showing blockhouses from the sandhills. [...
Date: 1865
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-039
Description: View along the north shoreline of the Whanganui River, with the Rutland Stockade (with two fortresses and other buildings within the perimeter fence]. Military tents dot the slopes of the nearer hills, and the spire of St Peter's Church can be seen, along with the buildings along the shoreline. In the right foreground, a Maori man in a cloak with a taiaha is conversing with a soldier in a blue uniform. This watercolour is copied from one by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams: 'Looking up the Wanganui River from sandhills near the town, 16 January 1865' in the Hocken Library, p. 63 in their now dismantled Williams' sketchbook. Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on buff paper, 171 x 249 mm.