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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-049

Description: View looking south along the cliffs near Patea, with a wind and water-shaped rock just off the coast, and other notable large rock formations on the beach to the left, observed by a cavalry man on horseback. Probably copied from a drawing by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams although the original for this work is not known Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white on cream paper, 87 x 250 mm

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-044

Description: View looking out to sea, with the Patea River's southern coast cliffs to the left, a steam moored at a sandhill on the south bank. In the right foreground are the remains of a sailing ship, broken in half. Soldiers are salvaging timbers from the vessel. The vessel may be the Alpha, a cutter wrecked off Patea in April 1865. The drawing is based on one by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams 'Mouth of the Patea' [1865?] in the Hocken Library, on p. 115 of their now dismantled E. A. Williams' sketchbook Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white on cream paper, 137 x 235 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-028

Description: Looking north along the coastline towards Maunganui, with ships in the harbour, infantry and cavalry on the beach to the left, a Maori canoe and a rowboat in the foreground, the rowboat being hauled out to sea off the mudflats by sailors. Boxes and barrels are on the shore and military tents can be seen in the distance, with a redoubt on a foreland further off Copied by Hamley from a drawing of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, 'The beach at Tauranga, 26 April 1864' in the Hocken Library, p. 31 of Williams' sketchbook (now dismantled and separately mounted). Williams also used his sketch as the basis for a larger watercolour 'Tauranga, New Zealand, 23 April 1864' in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on buff paper, 172 x 249 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-032

Description: View from the foot of Mount Pirongia, across the Kaniwhaniwha Stream, where cavalry are crossing, towards a broad river plain and low hill. Smoke can be seen in the distance Compare a similar sketch by E. A. Williams, Hamley's superior officer at E-349-076, dated March 1864. Many of Hamley's sketches are copied from Williams Other Titles - Kaniwhaniwha Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream paper, 170 x 243 mm.

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-041

Description: Scene inside a pa, with soldiers on guard and seated on the ground, a white horse pulling a cart to the left. The watercolour is a likely to be a copy of a watercolour by Colonel Edward Arthur Williams and is almost the same, apart from the placement of the soldiers, as a watercolour by Williams in the Turnbull Library entitled Picket at Nukumaru, 30 Jan.y 65. (A-210-019) 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. Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white, 174 x 249 mm

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-043

Description: View looking out to sea, across a landscape heavily eroded into chasms by water, with a waterfall on the right and a fishing pa with low huts perched on a cliff-top to the left, watched by two Royal Artillery soldiers on the left. A copy of a watercolour by E. A. Williams, the present location of which is unknown. 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. Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white, 173 x 249 mm Processing information: Titke changed in May 2019, as a result of information from a researcher.

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-020

Description: Looking south along the coastline towards Paritutu Rock, with the houses of New Plymouth along the foreshore, a flag flying above one building on the skyline and a rowboat being hauled ashore onto the beach. Copied by Hamley from a drawing of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, 'Beach and Sugar Loaves New Plymouth. [1864]' in the Hocken Library, in Williams' sketchbook (now dismantled and separately mounted). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 134 x 207 mm

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-022

Description: The curved bridge over Henui Stream, New Plymouth, with an armed soldier approaching by the road on the right, and another figure driving a carriage led by a pair of bullocks approaching on the left. Two buildings are on the skyline to the left. Copied by Hamley from a watercolour by his superior officer, E. A. Williams. Compare Williams' 'Henui Bridge [June 1865], (A-210-005), which is almost identical, except that Williams shows soldiers crossing the bridge, and no figure with bullocks. The buildings on the skyline are also somewhat different. The Williams watercolour has been dated to June 1865 by historian R. I. M. Burdett Other Titles - New Plymouth Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Henui Bridge, N. P. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream paper, 130 x 204 mm (to ruled line) on sheet 177 x 250 mm

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-038

Description: View looking north up the beach towards Mount Taranaki and the cliffs of South Taranaki, with foot soldiers marching and cavalry ahead and to the right. The watercolour is a copy of a watercolour by Colonel Edward Arthur Williams held by the Hocken Library and entitled A stroll on the beach - Mt Egmont in the distance, 16 February 65. 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. Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white, 173 x 249 mm

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911

Reference: E-047-q-034

Description: View on the southern flank of Maungatautari with soldiers among the long grass, firing towards the pa on the top of the nearby ridge. Two horses are galloping by and there is swampy land or a stream in the foreground. Gunsmoke from hidden Maori can be seen coming from the pa and from the foot of the hill. This was the final battle of the Waikato campaign of the New Zealand wars While many of Hamley's watercolours are copied from those of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, this work may be his own The additional title 'Maori Pah on hill' is in the hand of Anthony Murray-Oliver, a former staff member. Only the title Maungatautari appears on the recto in the hand of the artist Other Titles - Maori Pah on hill Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title - partly erased] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 177 x 247 mm

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911

Reference: E-047-q-014

Description: A flat area beside the Waipa River, with bush-clad banks on either side. In the background the pink of massed peach blossom can be seen. In the middle distance are whare or tents, with smoke rising from cooking fires. A soldier on horseback is in the left foreground While many of Hamley's watercolours are copied from those of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, this work may be his own Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title - partly erased] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 119 x 191 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-024

Description: View looking south along the coastline at New Plymouth, with a solider standing on the beach in the right foreground. In the middle distance are the houses of New Plymouth and the fortified buildings on top of 'Mount Eliot' (The former site of the Maori pa 'Puke Ariki' in New Plymouth) A copy of an original by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams, 'From your special correspondent by the sad sea waves, 2 July 1864', a watercolour in the Hocken Library, formerly bound into Williams' scrapbook, p. 21. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 168 x 244 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-033

Description: Scene in a military camp, with soldiers making high circular wickerwork baskets in the foreground. A cavalryman in on horseback in the centre. Tents and low barracks are in the background. Compare the right side of a similar sketch in the Hocken Library by E. A. Williams, Hamley's superior officer 'Siege train on Pukerimu Flats, Waikato, 1864. Soldiers making gabions'. The sketch is p. 15 of Williams' sketchbook, now disbound and separately mounted. Many of Hamley's sketches are copied from Williams Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream paper, 181 x 268 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-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.

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-004

Description: Looking across the river towards the stockade atop a hill, a flag flying inside its perimeter fence. There is a shed, possibly a boat shed at the water's edge and a small boat with a sail is being rowed across the river. A cleared hill with tree-stumps is on the left Copied by Hamley from the drawings of his superior officer, E. A. Williams. The original drawing on which this was based is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection in E. A. Williams' Album, p. 21, with the same title. The Library has a photograph of the E. A. Williams' sketch, negative 115988 1/2. Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 93 x 190 mm

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

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-019

Description: Looking south along the coastline towards Marsland hill redoubt, New Plymouth, and Paritutu Rock. The houses of New Plymouth are to the right. Copied by Hamley from a drawing of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, 'Marsland Hill, N. P. 22 June [1864]' in the Hocken Library, p. 17 of Williams' sketchbook (now dismantled and separately mounted). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 135 x 207 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-046

Description: Rear-wheel paddle steamer Koheroa discharging troops from the Waikato River to the landing at Pukerimu during the Waikato War. There are military tents, huts and men on horseback and the land. The watercolour is a copy of a watercolour by Colonel Edward Arthur Williams held by the Hocken Library and entitled Landing at Pukerimu. April '64. Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 244 mm

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911

Reference: E-047-q-007

Description: View from the Waikato River towards the surrounding hills at Taupiri While many of Hamley's watercolours are copied from those of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, this work may be his own Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 97 x 190 mm.

Date: 1863

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-026

Description: Bell Block stockade on the right with several other buildings and a flag-pole, on a small hill overlooking a plain, with another building nearby, smoke from burnt out buildings in the distance and Mount Taranaki in the background. Copied by Hamley from the drawings of his superior officer, E. A. Williams. There are two possible originals for this work, one in the Hocken Library entitled "Bell Block House 15 June 1864", the other in the Turnbull, entitled "Bell Block. 14 June (ref. E-349-a-127/128) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 132 x 211 mm