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Artist unknown :[Album of an officer. Goat grazing beside soldiers' tents, Taranaki May...
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-277-026
Description: Mount Taranaki in the background of a scene in a military camp with a white goat (or possibly a bullock?) to the left, three tents and a mounted gun. In the foreground a man is carrying water. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour over pencil, 64 x 115 mm
Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Auckland, Ordnance Store buildings, Fort Britomart ...
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-030
Description: View along the shoreline looking east, towards Parnell, with the military buildings the skyline above the cliff. Sail boats in the harbour, and a wharf in the right foreground with a yacht, crewed by several men. Other men and a woman with two children are on the wharf. This watercolour is copied from one by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams: either 'Fort Britomart, Auckland, 3 August 1864' in the Hocken Library, p. 35 in the now dismantled Williams' sketchbook, with minor changes in some details, especially the lettering on the sail of the yacht; or the Turnbull's watercolour 'Fort Britomart from Queen Street Wharf August 64' (E-510-010/011), which varies the figures on the wharf and does not include lettering on the yacht's sail. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on buff paper, 181 x 245 mm.
Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :View looking up the Patea River. [South Taranaki, 1...
Date: 1864 - 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-045
Description: View looking inland, with the south cliffs of the Patea River to the right, a small steamer moored at the base of the river. At the near (northern) bank a cutter is moored, its anchor in the sand, while soldiers are gathered nearby on the riverbank, two with a gun carriage, and one on horseback. a plain and low hills can be seen beyond the river Closely based on a watercolour by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams ' Looking up the Patea [1865]' in the now dismantled Williams' sketchbook in the Hocken Library, p. 119. Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white on cream paper, 126 x 274 mm
[Gold, Charles Emilius] 1809-1871 :65th Camp Waitara N. Zealand Taranaki 1860
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