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New Plymouth from Marsland Hill
Date: 1860
From: Urquhart album
By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878
Reference: PA1-q-250-05
Description: Photograph of an ink and watercolour painting, dated 1860 and signed by Joseph Osbertus Hamley. Looks over New Plymouth from Marsland Hill. St Mary's Anglican church is in the foreground. The Huatoki River is visible. The camp on the right is occupied by Imperial forces of the 65th Regiment, under the command of Lieutenant Urquhart. Photograph taken by John Nicol Crombie circa 1861. Hamley's painting is probably a copy of an Edwin Harris lithograph held in the Taranaki Museum. Arrangement: In folder stored with album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.3 x 21.3 cm, with trimmed corners, mounted on card 18.4 x 21.2 cm Processing information: Record was updated on 15 August 2022 to allow the attached digital surrogate to be purchasable.
Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Te Awamutu from Picquet Hill [1864]
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-017
Description: A standing armed soldier and two seated Maori in the centre foreground, looking towards Te Awamutu township. A fort is enclosed within a fence on the right, and the church on the left is surrounded by other buildings with puffs of smoke, either from fires or shot. Several Maori dwellings are in the foreground. A plain lies beyond the town and hills are in the distance Copied by Hamley from a drawing of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, now in the Hocken Library in E. A. Williams' Notebook, p. 57. The Turnbull has a slide of this work (under the same title as Hamley's). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 121 x 196 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 :Auckland, with St Paul's church, and Ordnance Store...
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-029
Description: View along the shoreline looking west, with St Paul's against the skyline, and the military buildings to the right above the cliff. Sail boats in the harbour, a steamship moored on the far left and a Maori canoe in the foreground, with a man carrying a load (possibly fish) on his shoulder. This watercolour is copied from one by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams: 'Auckland, New Zealand, 3 August 1864' (Reference number B-032-021). The colour of St Paul's in Williams' original is cream, as opposed to Hamley's terracotta; also Hamley has changed the disposition of a few foreground figures Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on buff paper, 125 x 245 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.