Places

Date: 1863

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-145-004

Description: Shows Royal Navy storming party in earthworks, Rangiriri Pa (Waikato/Tauranga War, 1863-4). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen sketch 228 x 305 mm

Date: 1863

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-072

Description: A military tent in the right foreground by the banks of the Waikato River. The roof of another building can be seen below the bank closer to the river, with a further building atop a hill in the background. The river is shown fringed with trees and hills. Meremere was the site of a major battle in the Tauranga-Waikato campaign of the New Zealand wars. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 90 x 174 mm

Date: 1863 - 1839

From: Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :[Notes and sketches of Maori fortifications, 1839-1863] [1] Notes relative to sketches; [2] Fighting stages Waitangi, Chatham I[slan]d. 1839; Waimate pa, 1839; Sunset Point, Auckland; Summit of Rangitoto Island, Auckland; [3] Ruapekapeka, section along red line in sheet 6 [4] Tauranga Ika Pah; [5] Earthworks at Rangiriri, Waikato, 1863; Plan of a pa, Massacre Bay, 1839; Section of a wall near a gateway; [6] [Unidentified pa, sketch signed by R. Chapman]; Rangiriri, sketch of Maori works taken the day of the capture, 1863.

Reference: B-043-016-5-2

Description: On the left, a plan view of a fortified pa at Golden Bay. Rougly rectangular in shape, it is shown on a hilltop with a double palisade and two entrances. On the right is a side view of 'Section of walls near a gateway', showing a man crouched in a trench between two palisades, aiming a rifle through the base of the outer palisade. A lengthy note below explains the method of building palisades The image of 'Section of walls near a gateway' may refer to the pa at Massacre (Golden) Bay, or may refer to an associated lithograph by Heaphy Earthworks at Rangiriri, Waikato, 1863 (Copy held at B-043-016-5-1, or B-043-015-5-1). The note refers to the palisade protecting against shells or cannonballs, likely to be used by English troops, and not known to be in use against any pa in the Golden Bay area. However the Golden Bay pa shown appears to be a fully defensive one and is completely enclosed with a double palisade, offset entranceways, and a watch-tower Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - on backing sheet in pencil. C. Heaphy Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph of pen drawing and notes on cream paper, 246 x 382 mm glued to sheet 342 x 505 mm

Date: 1864

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096088-G

Description: Queens Redoubt, Pokeno, photographed in 1864 by Daniel Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 20 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1864 - 1865

From: Fraser, I T[allon?] B :[Scrapbook. 1864-1910].

Reference: E-571-q-002

Description: Shows a view of the stream in the centre with the hill and buildings of Queen's Redoubt at the left. There is a wooden bridge over the stream, and small boats tied up along the bank at the right. On the left bank beside the bridge is a pulley or hoist mounted on two intersecting poles. A horse and cart stands at the left of the bridge. Extended Title - From his scrapbook, 1864-1925. Page 2. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - I T B Fraser / 1st W[aikato?] R[egt]; Recto - bottom left - [Title]; Recto - beneath image - [Title]. Heads [sic] quarters of Boat Transport Service / New Zealand Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, chalk and watercolour on tinted paper 195 x 269 mm, on page 290 x 235 mm.

Date: 1864

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-017

Description: A fortification on top of a hill to the left, above the Waikato River. Compare the artist's 'Tuakau, Lower Waikato, 1864' (WC-018) showing the same fortifications from the opposite side. Probably shows the Alexandra Redoubt, established at Tuakau in 1863 Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 160 x 230 mm

Date: 1863

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-082

Description: Military tents, cannons and palisades in the foreground, looking towards hills with extensive river and swamps in the middle ground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 140 x 226 mm

Date: 1864

From: Ruck, Charlotte Steward, 1840?-1916 :[Scrapbooks, ca 1860 to ca 1899]

By: Tempsky, Gustavus Ferdinand von, 1828-1868

Reference: E-309-q-2-107-1

Description: Photograph of a watercolour (or possibly an ink and wash sketch) by G. F. von Tempsky. The location of the original watercolour is not known. Another copy of this photograph is held by descendants of the artist in Hawaii. Shows four soldiers and one Maori in the foreground, firing towards a Maori fortification on a hill in the background. A letter from the artist to Thomas Russell, Minister for Colonial Defence on 11 February 1864 probably refers to this sketch. See G. F. von Tempsky, Artist and Adventurer, by Rose Young (Martinborough, 1981), p. 324 for further details. The sketch was done in the field, possibly with ink and wash. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Sepia photograph of a watercolour, 99 x 188 mm

Date: 1864 - 1865

From: Fraser, I T[allon?] B :[Scrapbook. 1864-1910].

By: Fraser, I T B, active 1863-1890s

Reference: E-571-q-001

Description: Shows a foreshortened view of a rowboat full of soldiers approaching a stockade or fort, with a fenced group of tents at the top of a hill and other tents pitched to its right and downhill. Extended Title - From his scrapbook, 1864-1925, page 1. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Tallon?] B Fraser / 1st W[aikato?] Regt; Recto - bottom right - Mere Mere. I T B F; Recto - beneath image - Mere Mere Waikato River Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Ink and wash drawing, 177 x 254 mm, on page 290 x 235 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-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: 1863

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-084

Description: The stockade seen in the distance across a hilly landscape with a road and the Waikato River Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 99 x 164 mm

Date: 1863 - 1864

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0033-1864-216-2

Description: Shows an event that occurred in 1863, Maori prisoners waiting to be place on board the H M S Pioneer. The drawing is inaccurate in that the Pioneer was a paddlesteamer, and the paddle is not shown here. In fact it actually shows the "Corio" steamer. Three issues later, the Illustrated London news acknowledged this mistake. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 100 x 240 mm.

Date: 1863 - 1887 - 1864

By: Wilson, John Alexander, 1829-1909; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927

Reference: A-109-050

Description: Battle scene with groups of soldiers from the Forest Rangers and the 65th Regiment, plus General Cameron and staff, with guns firing and horses, several dead or wounded men, Maori whares in the background and bush and hills. Soldiers are identified by name and the death of General Nixon is shown. The man directing the Forest Rangers is likely to be von Tempsky. After an original by J.A.Wilson, a witness to the battle, and depicted in this view. A copy of the original and a description of the battle is published in Cowan, J. The New Zealand wars. Vol. 1 p. 345. Lieutenant McDonnell is likely to be Thomas McDonnell (1832-1899), noted for his heroism at Rangiaowhia. His brother, William McDonnell (1839-1919?) also fought in the New Zealand wars, but in the Wanganui area. Both were sons of Thomas McDonnell (1788-1864) of Hokianga Other Titles - McHales' body Rangiaowhia Extended Title - From: Gudgeon, T. W. The defenders of New Zealand. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 165 x 280 mm

Date: 1863

By: Tempsky, Gustavus Ferdinand von, 1828-1868; Eastwood, Charles, 1848-1868

Reference: A-198-001

Description: The Alexandra Redoubt on a bank high above the Waikato river. Two soldiers standing on top of the bank to the right. Has been attributed on stylistic grounds to Charles Eastwood; however it may also be the work of Von Tempsky Inscriptions: Recto - title and 'by von Tempsky' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 226 x 290 mm

Date: [ca 1922]

Reference: 1/2-154743-F

Description: Entrenchments at Rangiriri, Waikato, photographed circa 1922 by an unidentified photographer. Taken from the site of the central redoubt of Rangiriri Pa (intersected by the Great South Road), showing the long parapet and double ditch extending westward from the hilltop to the Waikato River. Other - Same image also held at the Historic Places Trust, along with several others of the area believed to have been taken in the 1920s. The Trust's photographs came from the Department of Lands and Survey. Source of descriptive information - Description of photograph from James Cowan, The New Zealand wars : a history of the Maori campaigns and the pioneering period (Wellington [N.Z.] : Govt. printer, 1922-1923), vol 1, page 325. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-053/054

Description: Looking along the Waikato River, with a rear wheel paddlesteamer, probably the Koheroa, in the middle distance, two canoes alongside it Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook across two pages. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 100 x 320 mm

Date: 1864

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-438-009

Description: Shows the earthworks at Rangiriri Pa, with soldiers wandering about the site. One soldier is sitting in the foreground with his pack box. Other Titles - Rangiriri Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Black and white engraving on cropped page, 158 x 277 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, July 2010.

Date: 1863

Reference: A-090-015

Description: Shows the tents of Te Papa military camp to the right and the buildings of Tauranga in the distance on the right. The church-like building with a spire on the right was the Church Missionary Society's Mission Institute, taken over as a commissariat by the troops. A low cliff drops to the water and there are several small boats in the harbour. The view is from the west side of Tauranga Harbour. The Mission Institute was erected in 1860 as a training school to teach Maori agricultural skills. After being used as a commissariat during the war, it was used as a hospital. Other Titles - Gate Pa Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil. Also 'Artist unknown' in a different hand in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour with scraping out, on prepared paper, 142 x 225 mm (image) on sheet 187 x 269 mm Provenance: Unknown.

Date: 1864

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-018

Description: Distant view of redoubt, with red flag flying on a hill to the right. There is an island in the middle of the Waikato River to the left. Compare the artist's watercolour 'Tuakau, Waikato, 1864' (WC-017) for a view of the same fortifications from the opposite side. Probably shows the Alexandra Redoubt, established at Tuakau in 1863 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 160 x 230 mm

Date: 1864

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook. Mainly Northland scenes] 1864

Reference: E-125-053/054

Description: An extensive view of the plains of the Waikato, with Lake Waikare to the left, the Waikato River in the centre and the fortifications at Rangiriri to the right in the distance Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper 127 x 344 mm