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[Harris, Edwin] ca 1810-1895 :New Plymouth, New Zealand [1860]
Date: 1860
By: Harris, Edwin, 1810?-1895; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871
Reference: C-030-010
Description: Shows the township seen from Marsland Hill with the harbour and Sugar Loaf Rocks in the background and St Mary's Church with the beginnings of the new additions, started in 1860, in the foreground. Also various regiments (including 40th?) and encampments near church, military hospitals, Marsland Hotel, and various other churches. cf. Taranaki Museum's watercolour and pencil drawings of the same scene, and Hocken's col. lithographs, all signed by Edwin Harris, Harris may have copied Gold, and this painting has been attributed to Gold in the past. See Otago Daily Times, 9 Jan 1982, p. 30 for further confirmation of attribution The lithographic copy of this image in St Mary's Church, New Plymouth includes a key to various features. The title is New Plymouth from Marsland Hill. To the left of St Mary's, the two-storied building is Marsland Hotel and military Hospital. To the right, across the road, past the troops, the high-gabled single-storey building with a small porch by its door is the Maori Chapel. The two-storied building opposite the chapel is the Military Hospital. Further off to the right, the tallest building is the Wesleyan Chapel. The flagstaff on the hill between St Mary's and the sea marks the "sailors camp on Mt Elliott". Inscriptions: Mount verso - 40th Regiment, Taranaki, New Plymouth, N.Z. about 1840? Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 270 x 560 mm Provenance: George Page Cooper, Melbourne; purchased Joel's Auction, Melbourne, Nov. 1967.
[Hamley, Joseph Osbertus] 1820-1911 :Maori war dance, Taranaki [18 June 1864]
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-021
Description: The fortification on Marsland Hill at New Plymouth with a large hospital tent in front and many Maori and Pakeha in front of it. In the foreground, groups of Maori and Pakeha, including a man performing a challenge, with an axe. The occasion appears to be festive, with many flags strung up and families present, possibly after the cessation of hostilities at New Plymouth. Based on a watercolour in Edward Arthur Williams' sketchbook, called Taranaki (E-348-131/13l). There is also a watercolour of the same subject called New Plymouth 18 June 1864 by E. A. Williams, held by the Hocken Library (neg 116167 1/2 in the Drawings and Prints photographic files). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 105 x 185 mm
Colonial hospital, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Date: [ca 1863-1865]
From: Nicholl, Spencer Perceval Talbot, 1841-1908 :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-q-177-04-3
Description: The Colonial Hospital, New Plymouth, with Mount Egmont (Taranaki) in the background. Soldiers are lined up on the lawn in front of the hospital. Photographed by an unknown photographer between 1862 and 1865. Source of descriptive information - Inscription on album page. Date from display date at PA1-q-177. Inscriptions: Verso - Militia Hospital & Mt Egmont Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 15 x 9.4 cm, on album page