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Date: 1847 - 1864 - 1848 - 1865

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: A-036-018

Description: View from the south bank of the Whanganui River, showing York Stockade, Rutland Stockade, Christ Church, Yankee Smith's Hotel, Gilfillan's house. Attributed by the vendor to Edward Arthur Williams although the style does not appear to be his and the view seems more likely to date from the 1840s than the 1860s. Williams visited Wanganui in 1864 and 1865. The church and both stockades were erected in the 1840s. Gilfillan left Wanganui in 1848 and Yankee Smith's Hotel was run by Alva G. Smith only in the 1840s Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 178 x 252 mm Provenance: Pharazyn family ownership previously.

Date: 1864

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: A-236-018

Description: View from a high point looking down over the settlement of Auckland in the distance. There are sheep in the right foreground near a cabbage tree. The steeples of St Paul's (on the left) and St Barnabas (on the right) along with the roofs of houses can be seen. Devonport with Mount Victoria and North Head and Rangitoto Island are in the distance across Waitemata Harbour Attribution on stylistic grounds. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and chinese white 123 x 337mm Processing information: Originally mounted with A-236-017 and A-236-019. Titles, formerly inscribed on the verso of the mount in the hand of E. A. Williams, have been retained in a separate folder with the three works.

Date: 1864

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898; Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: B-035-021

Description: Shows Mechanics Bay with St Paul's Church and Britomart Barracks, ships around Wynyard Pier and a Maori canoe on the mudflats in the foreground. Original mount (now discarded) included inscription on lower right: Colonel Williams, R.A., possibly inscribed by H.J.Warre Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 122 x 247 mm Transfers: Purchased with B-035-016 and B-035-017.

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-017

Description: A standing armed soldier and two seated Maori in the centre foreground, looking towards Te Awamutu township. A fort is enclosed within a fence on the right, and the church on the left is surrounded by other buildings with puffs of smoke, either from fires or shot. Several Maori dwellings are in the foreground. A plain lies beyond the town and hills are in the distance Copied by Hamley from a drawing of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, now in the Hocken Library in E. A. Williams' Notebook, p. 57. The Turnbull has a slide of this work (under the same title as Hamley's). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 121 x 196 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-029

Description: View along the shoreline looking west, with St Paul's against the skyline, and the military buildings to the right above the cliff. Sail boats in the harbour, a steamship moored on the far left and a Maori canoe in the foreground, with a man carrying a load (possibly fish) on his shoulder. This watercolour is copied from one by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams: 'Auckland, New Zealand, 3 August 1864' (Reference number B-032-021). The colour of St Paul's in Williams' original is cream, as opposed to Hamley's terracotta; also Hamley has changed the disposition of a few foreground figures Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on buff paper, 125 x 245 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-039

Description: View along the north shoreline of the Whanganui River, with the Rutland Stockade (with two fortresses and other buildings within the perimeter fence]. Military tents dot the slopes of the nearer hills, and the spire of St Peter's Church can be seen, along with the buildings along the shoreline. In the right foreground, a Maori man in a cloak with a taiaha is conversing with a soldier in a blue uniform. This watercolour is copied from one by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams: 'Looking up the Wanganui River from sandhills near the town, 16 January 1865' in the Hocken Library, p. 63 in their now dismantled Williams' sketchbook. Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on buff paper, 171 x 249 mm.