IMAGE
Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Wanganui, showing blockhouses from the sandhills. [16 January 1865]
- Date
- 1865
- 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.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864] / Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour on buff paper, 171 x 249 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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