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Date: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-027

Description: British redcoated troops surrounding a pa beside the sea on the left and a house in the centre of the view. The pa is in flames and troops are spread in lines on the hills in the distance. Flax and low scrub in the foreground. Other Titles - Waikare, Northland Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title and date in brushpoint Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 210 x 324 mm on sheet 288 x 405 mm

Date: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-013

Description: A stream with three canoes in the foreground, raupo growing at the water's edge, pa buildings on the left, a bush-clad hill rising behind. In the background are other whare, a steep hill topped with a defensive pa with fences at three levels and someone on a maypole-type swing Compare the watercolour by Cyprian Bridge of which this is a copy at A-079-002 Other Titles - Kawakawa Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash and Chinese white, 253 x 367 mm

Date: October 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-012

Description: A road in the foreground, fences and paddocks, cows grazing and further grazing animals in the middle distance. In the centre, a church, with a two-storied house (the Waimate Mission Station) and other smaller buildings to its left. Two small houses beyond a clump of bush to the right. In the background, a steep hill (Pukenui or Puke Nui) with either cultivated land or a pa on one side A copy of Cyprian Bridge's watercolour of the same scene, held at A-079-036 Identification: the hill referred to by the artist as Poka Mie is a volcanic cone, Puke Nui, now known as Te Ahuahu Other Titles - Pukenui Puke Nui Waimate North Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash and watercolour, 252 x 364 mm

Date: 1845 - 1847

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-019

Description: View framed by layered rocks rising on both sides, looking west along the Auckland foreshore, with ships and boats in the harbour and the city visible in the distance on a headland, with the spire of the Cathedral and houses. A man and a boy are seated on the rocks in the foreground Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and conte crayon, 252 x 365 mm Transfers: According to back of file print, 'Removed from Bridge/Williams joint sketchbook' (i.e. E-320-f).

Date: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-025

Description: A single European house with fences standing at the foot of a cleared hill, with a bush-clad hill to its left, with the Kapotai Pa buildings amongst bush. Flat and rather marshy land in the foreground, with low scrub to the left. The view, despite its title, shows the scene without an attack happening and with no troops present, possibly because it is unfinished. Compare the much more finished version of this scene by Cyprian Bridge, a watercolour with the same title, reference number A-079-004. Bridge's version shows redcoat soldiers and Maori and the pa being fired Other Titles - Kapotai Pa, Waikare Inlet Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and conte crayon, 252 x 365 mm Transfers: Probably removed from the Bridge / Williams sketchbook E-320-f. The paper matches that of other works removed from this sketchbook..

Date: 1849

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-020

Description: View from a rocky foreshore, with a bush-clad headland to the right, looking across to Kororareka (now Russell) with several houses along the beach at the town and, at the west end, the large hakari built to celebrate the visit of Governor Grey at Christmas, 1849. Rising above the hakari (large food storage platform or scaffolding) is a series of hills with a flagpole on top of the highest hill Compare the wood engraving illustration of the same scene from A. S. Thompson's The Story of New Zealand (London, 1859), with caption Kororareka in 1849 from a sketch by Colonel Bridge. The location of Bridge's drawing or watercolour is not known. The wood engraving includes the carved prow of a large waka on the far right, and another large waka in the water being rowed into shore. Williams' pencil drawing includes a very small waka on the water. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 252 x 365 mm Transfers: Removed from the Bridge / Williams sketchbook E-320-f? The paper is the same as A-079-019, also removed from this sketchbook, and marks alongthe left side on the verso of the work suggest that it was once glued into a bound volume.

Date: 1845 - 1847

By: Williams, John, -1905?; Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: A-079-017

Description: A European male, thought to be Joel Samuel Polack, facing three Maori men, one gesturing with two large woven kits of potatoes at his feet, another with potatoes on his back, the third holding a tethered pig. In the background is a curved bay, probably Kororareka (Russell) with tents and buildings visible and a canoe pulled up on the shore. Almost identical to, and possibly copied from a sketch by Cyprian Bridge entitled Maoris bartering pigs and potatoes ca 1845, (neg 52118 1/2) held in a private collection. Other Titles - Maoris bartering pigs and potatoes Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink & wash 260 x 360 mm

Date: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?; Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-030-016

Description: Extensive view across a bay towards a beach and headland, with houses, barracks, a parade ground with redcoats drilling, the Red Ensign flag flying beside the largest house high on the hill to the left, the home of Colonel Cyprian Bridge. There are several small boats on the water. Nobby Island is on the left. Other buildings along the waterfront, from left, include barracks, in the centre the magazine of the 58th Regiment, a sentry box (set back from the waterfront), the hospital, the canteen and the officers' residence on the right The title on Bridge's pencil sketch (f-E-320-014) identifies his own house 'where I was quartered 3 years and a half, the parade ground, officers' houses and our pleasure boats in the foreground'. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signature & 58; Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 322 x 538 mm Provenance: The sketchbook was acquired by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull in July 1893. Transfers: Removed from sketchbook E-320-f, along with C-018-020, an ink and wash version of the same view. Had been folded to fit in the sketchbook. Still in the sketchbook are Cyprian Bridge's "View of my house and cantonment at Wahapu" (p.14), probably the drawing copied by Williams; also on p. 12 and 13, 2 pencil and wash details of the same view, either by Bridge or Williams..

Date: 1845 - 1847

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: C-018-020

Description: An extensive view looking across water towards Te Wahapu Inlet with houses and barracks ranged along the shore and Cyprian Bridge's houses further up the hill to the left, with a flag flying Compare Williams' watercolour of the same view 'Wahapu, New Zealand' (C-030-016), as well as Bridge's pencil drawing 'View of my house...' (E-320-f-014) and a two-part watercolour view by either Bridge or Williams, E-320-f-012 and E-320-f-013 Both Bridge and Williams, along with other members of the 58th Regiment, were stationed at Wahapu, 1845-1847 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 252 x 728 mm Provenance: Removed from sketchbook which was purchased by Alexander Turnbull in Edinburgh in 1893 Transfers: Removed from Williams' sketchbook, E-320-f-008..

Date: 1845 - 1847

From: Williams, John, d 1905 :Maori war sketches [by John Williams, Cyprian Bridge and other artists] 1845-1850

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885; Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: E-320-f-012

Description: The right side of a two-part panorama of Wahapu Inlet, Bay of Islands, looking across the water towards a hill with houses at the shoreline By or after Cyprian Bridge or John Williams. cf C-018-020, a sepia wash drawing attributed to John Williams, and C-030-016, a watercolour by John Williams, as well as Bridge's pencil drawing View of my house and cantonment of Wahapu, E-320-f-014. These show the full scene comprised by E-320-f-012/013. Cyprian Bridge, John Williams and other members of the 58th Regiment were stationed at Wahapu, 1845-1847 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 190 x 260 mm

Date: 1845 - 1847

From: Williams, John, d 1905 :Maori war sketches [by John Williams, Cyprian Bridge and other artists] 1845-1850

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885; Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: E-320-f-013

Description: The left-hand section of a view of Wahapu Inlet, Bay of Islands, looking across the water towards a hill with houses and barracks along the shore and one house-way up the hill. By or after Cyprian Bridge or John Williams. cf C-018-020, a sepia wash drawing attributed to John Williams, C-030-016, a watercolour by John Williams, as well as a pencil drawing by Cyprian Bridge, E-320-f-014, all showing the same scene as the combined view of E-320-f-012 and E-320-f-013. The scene includes Cyprian Bridge's house. Both Bridge and Williams, as well as other members of the 58th Regiment were stationed at Wahapu, 1845-1847. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 188 x 260 mm

Date: 1849

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863; Williams, John, -1905?; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-030-007

Description: An enormous open hakari, or wooden construction, with flags flying from poles on the top and people climbing up its sides, seated beneath it, and moving around its base. A long low whare is in the foreground, with another at right angles to it, and piles of food are on the ground with the whole enclosed by a low fence. This watercolour was originally in the Bridge/Williams album (E-320-f). See also: B-030-006, E-144-002 and a watercolour in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia for three other almost identical views by Cuthbert Clarke. This view appears to be a copy by John Williams The feast was mounted at Russell (Kororareka) in honour of Governor George Grey Other Titles - Williams, John, d 1905 Inscriptions: Cuthbert Clarke del. September 1849; Recto - bottom right - title in ink [not in the hand of Cuthbert Clarke; probably the hand of John Williams] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 302 x 427 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull, purchased from W. Brown of Edinburgh, 19 July 1893, as part of album E-320-f, along with drawings watercolours by Cyprian Bridge and John Williams in the same album. Was possibly on the final page of the album