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Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906 :First encampment at Drury. 17 July 1863. Naval enc...
Date: 1861 - 1863
By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906
Reference: B-064-025/026
Description: Recto shows group of circular tents with soldiers beside most of them. More permanent buildings include the Commisariat store house, and the Government Pier building. Verso shows bushy island with native huts and canoes. Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil mounted on paper 304 x 392 mm. Provenance: Purchased at auction at Sotheby's, London, in 1988.
Scrivener, Henry Ambrose b 1842 :Naval camp of H. M. S. Harrior at Drury, New Zealand. ...
Date: 1863
By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906
Reference: B-061-020
Description: Shows H.M.S. Harrier at a wharf on the Manukau Harbour, military personnel and tents, a Union Jack on a flagpole, and the opposite bank of the river in the distance. Signed: H.A.S. Title from accompanying caption. Other Titles - Harrier Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 245 mm
Various artists :The war in New Zealand. The cemetery at Tauranga, with the graves of t...
Date: 1864
By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)
Reference: A-433-002
Description: The top image shows a view of the graves of Lieut-Col. Booth and officers and men of the 43rd Regt, killed at Tauranga. Mount Maunganui in background, with ships Esk, Harrier and Jason in harbour. Based on a drawing by E A Williams. The lower images shows British troops in the foreground behind trees, and in a trench leading up towards a hilltop pa, where a British flag can be seen flying. The smoke of gunfire can be seen from several points around the pa. Other Titles - Pa Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on page 398 x 274 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, May 2010.
Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906 :First encampment at Drury. 17 July 1863. Naval enc...
Date: 1863
From: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906 :First encampment at Drury. 17 July 1863. Naval encampment of landing party from HMS Harrier... 1863; and (on verso) Nukulau Island, Fiji Islands. 1861..
By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906
Reference: B-064-025
Description: Shows group of circular tents with soldiers beside most of them. More permanent buildings include the Commisariat store house, and the Government Pier building. Drury was an advanced base for military operations from 1863-64. Supplies and munitions were shipped by cutters from Onehunga across the Manukau Harbour up the Drury Inlet. The 17th of July 1863 was the day of two actions of the Waikato War, one with General Cameron at Koheroa Ranges, the second the ambush at Martin's Farm, near Drury. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - First Encampment at Drury - 17 July 1863 / Naval Brigade Encampment ; Govt Pier at Drury; Military Store Tents, Commissariat / Store House; Recto - beneath image - Naval encampment of landing Party from "HMS Harrier" at Drury. New Zealand / on 17 July 1863 - Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 188 x 317 mm, mounted on paper 304 x 392 mm.