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Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888; Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909

Reference: A-160-011

Description: An extensive landscape looking across the Waikato River plain Based on a photograph by Daniel Manders Beere Inscriptions: Title from label inscribed in ink in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 105 x 210 mm

Date: 1922 - 1864

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962; Liverpool, Cecil George Savile Foljambe, Viscount Hawkesbury and 1st Earl of, 1846-1907; Cowan, James, 1870-1943

Reference: A-138-025

Description: Shows attack of gunboat `Pioneer' during the New Zealand wars, with the gunboat in the centre of the river and answering fire from the riverbank to the left Based on an engraving in the Illustrated London news 'The war in New Zealand. The gun-boat Pioneer at anchor off Meremere on the Waikato River, reconnoitring the native position... January 1864. From a sketch by an officer of H. M. S. Curacao'. The officer/artist may be Lord Liverpool Extended Title - Reproduced in The New Zealand Wars, v. 1, p. 311 by J Cowan Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash on photographic paper, 135 x 240 mm

Date: 1863 - 1864

From: Artist unknown :Watercolours of New Zealand during the Waikato War of 1863 and on the voyage back to England, 1864.

Reference: A-161-034

Description: Military encampment with tents, cannons, a steam on the river in the distance, looking out to an extensive landscape with low hills. Other Titles - Whangamarino Inscriptions: Verso - title [in ink and pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 148 x 219 mm

Date: [Circa 1860s]

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Marvin, William, 1834-1915

Reference: PA1-q-320

Description: Album of photographs taken during the 1860s by various photographers. All the images are related to Colonel William Marvin (1834-1915) who came to New Zealand circa 1858 and was possibly attached to the 70th Regiment of Foot during the New Zealand wars. There are many photographs relating to military activity, including military working parties at Fort Britomart; military and naval camps at Maungatawhiri Creek, Queen's Redoubt, Drury, Ngaruawahia and Albert Barracks; a monument to the 43rd Regiment at Gate Pa near Tauranga; Potatau's tomb with a sentry guarding it; and the Auckland cemetery. Many of the images are of Auckland, including `Hale's Boarding House, where I first slept in N.Z.'; `The Masonic Hotel where I was made a mason in 1861'; `My last batchelor home near Constitution Hill green, next door to the Dacres'; `St. Mary's where I was married 4th August 1862'; a long sequence showing Queen Street from different angles in 1866'; and various homes that he knew, including Heaphy's house in St George's Bay, Dillon Bell's House in Parnell, and `Little Sutton' in St. George's Bay. Other images of interest include a mining camp at Coromandel; the tree on which Volkner was hanged, with a seated group of Maori beside a whare; a Maori church that is completely thatched, in the Waikato; and two views of the sailing ship Ida Ziegler [i.e. Zeigler] `In which we returned from N.Z. round Cape Horn, 29th Jany to 1st May 1867'. Photographs in England are all related to Tipner Barracks near Portsmouth, and Malpas Cemetery, Newport Monmouthshire. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with albumen prints. Label attached to cover `Pictures of N.Z. (N. Island) & Tipner with captions by Col. Marvin'. Textured black cover; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1863 - 1864

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

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-372-f-005-2

Description: View along and around a bend in the river with the Pioneer in the centre, with smoke from its guns, and gunsmoke or fire from the left shore, either being attacked or attacking. Trees in the foreground and the river shown heavily bushed to its edges except where the Maori position is indicated. Based on a drawing by E A Williams Extended Title - From Illustrated London news, January 1864, p. 93 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 162 x 228 mm

Date: 1863 - 1864

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-120

Description: A Maori man rowing a European, possibly Carbery, on a broad river, probably the Waikato near Meremere. The European has a gun and is probably preparing to shoot ducks or other birds Location identified from an earlier drawing on E-248-q-094 showing Carbery being rowed by a Maori man Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on album page, 240 x 287 mm

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-006

Description: Looking down from above at the military camp on the left, the river and low hills beyond. A road lies to the right of the camp, with a figure on horseback and a man walking. Soldiers, tents, gun carriages and supplies can be seen in the camp. Copied from a watercolour by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams 'Meremere, N.Z. [1864]', on p. 18 of the Hocken Library's E. A. Williams' sketchbook (now separately mounted) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 136 x 202 mm

Date: 1863 - 1864

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0033-1864-093

Description: Shows an event that occurred in 1863, with the paddlesteamer Pioneer, with clouds of gunsmoke. On a hill to the left are further clouds marking the position of the shots from the gunboat. A flag inside a perimeter fence can be seen on top of the hill. 'From a sketch by an officer of H. M. S. Curacoa' [sic- the ship's name was mis-spelled by the British Navy] Other Titles - reconnoitering Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 125 x 220 mm.

Date: 1864

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096090-G

Description: Meremere, on the bank of the Waikato River. The volunteer camp is visible in the distance. Photograph taken in 1864 by Daniels Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 22 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-013

Description: View of a calm, wide river, two branches protruding from the water in the right foreground, a small rowboat in the middle distance Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 159 x 235 mm

Date: 1863

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-072

Description: A military tent in the right foreground by the banks of the Waikato River. The roof of another building can be seen below the bank closer to the river, with a further building atop a hill in the background. The river is shown fringed with trees and hills. Meremere was the site of a major battle in the Tauranga-Waikato campaign of the New Zealand wars. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 90 x 174 mm

Date: [1860s]

By: Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888

Reference: A-160-012

Description: An extensive view of the Waikato River with surrounding low bush-clad hills Inscriptions: Title from ink label in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 110 x 220 mm

Date: 1864

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096097-G

Description: View of the Waikato river at Meremere, photographed in 1864 by Daniel Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 29 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1863 - 1864

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-094

Description: A European man, possibly the artist, being rowed by a Maori man, probably on the Waikato River near Meremere. The European is holding a gun. Flax bushes grow in the water to the right, and a bank with hanging treesis on the left, with hills in the distance The rather garbled Maori inscription appears to indicate that Carbery is being taken shooting in a canoe with his 'doubara (tupara or two barrelled gun) on the Waikato near Meremere Other Titles - Two-barrel Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 134 x 132 mm (circular)

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-012

Description: Shows an islet reflected in the still waters of the Waikato Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour

Date: 1864 - 1865

From: Fraser, I T[allon?] B :[Scrapbook. 1864-1910].

By: Fraser, I T B, active 1863-1890s

Reference: E-571-q-001

Description: Shows a foreshortened view of a rowboat full of soldiers approaching a stockade or fort, with a fenced group of tents at the top of a hill and other tents pitched to its right and downhill. Extended Title - From his scrapbook, 1864-1925, page 1. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Tallon?] B Fraser / 1st W[aikato?] Regt; Recto - bottom right - Mere Mere. I T B F; Recto - beneath image - Mere Mere Waikato River Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Ink and wash drawing, 177 x 254 mm, on page 290 x 235 mm.

Date: [1863]

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: C-025-011

Description: A view from above Whangamarino Redoubt with three cannons in the foreground. The left one is firing out over river and plain. The river bends at the extreme right, or may join another. The gunboat (Pioneer) is in the river in the centre distance, near a fortification or pa with a flag flying. In a note on the back A W F Fuller quotes G W Rusden's History of NZ 1883, vol. II, page 167: "On the 29th October 1863, General Cameron with Commander Wiseman, reconnoitred Mere-Mere. Two 40 pound Armstrong guns had been previously landed at Whangamarino to command the landing place at Mere Mere. That stronghold was on a low ridge which approached the Waikato river. Traversed rifle-pits occupied the descent of the ridge to the river. Swamps almost encircled the ridge, & the Whangamarino & Maramarua rivers, or creeks, were available to the east for the possible retreat always aimed at by Maoris in their plans of fortification. The swamps were more water-laden than usual. The Maori flag floated in a pah where the ridge was 130 feet high. Every slope & projection from the ridge to the swamps was traversed with rifle-pits..." The mention of the flag appears to mean that the Maori pa is the one with the flag flying in the centre distance. Other Titles - Meremere Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Heaphy; Verso - centre - [Notes by A W F Fuller, 7 May 1941]. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, 490 x 760 mm

Date: 1863

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-082

Description: Military tents, cannons and palisades in the foreground, looking towards hills with extensive river and swamps in the middle ground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 140 x 226 mm

Date: 1864

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

Reference: E-349-074

Description: Shows a military camp on the bank of the Waikato River. Includes soldiers on foot and on horseback, guns, tents, sheds, and supplies. Trees are at the water's edge, and hills in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 100 x 160 mm

Date: 1863 - 1864

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898; Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Baillie, Herbert, 1863-1941

Reference: A-110-006

Description: View along and around a bend in the river with the Pioneer in the centre, with smoke from its guns, and gunsmoke or fire from the left shore, either being attacked or attacking. Trees in the foreground and the river shown heavily bushed to its edges except where the Maori position is indicated. Based on a drawing by E A Williams The wood engraving of which this is a photograph was published in Illustrated London news, vol 44, p.93, January 1864. Library holds the original volume in question. Herbert Baillie presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society, 21 October 1919, published in Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Vol 53, 1921, p 29-36: 'The first New Zealand Navy; with some episodes of the Maori War in connection with the British Navy'. The article was illustrated with this image, along with others of gunboats in used on the Waikato River, 1863-1864 Other Titles - gunboat Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of wood engraving pasted on card 148 x 230 mm