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Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :'English' blockaus Akaroa 18 Sept 1848.
Date: 1848
From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848
Reference: E-333-004-1
Description: A defensive fort with a surrounding fence, a house to the left, looking south along the foreshore past a wharf at Akaroa. Located at the southern end of Akaroa township in 'English Town'. One of three blockhouses built by the French Navy after the Wairau Affray and hostilities between Maori and Pakeha in Northland and Wellington. The Akaroa blockhouses were never used. From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Other Titles - Blockhouse, Blockhaus Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date [in ink] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 106 x 135, on buff-coloured sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm
Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Akaroa Xmas Day. [1848]
Date: 1848
From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848
Reference: E-333-104
Description: View on the foreshore, with a soldier and cannon in the foreground, houses and the blockhouse prominent to the left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm.