Lieutenant, Royal Engineers who was sent to Wanganui in 1846 to supervise the building of a stockade. Trained at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and was first commissioned in 1838. Rose to rank of Major-General and retired in 1873. Made a large collection of drawings of Hong Kong and its surroundings, New South Wales and Tasmania, and Auckland, Wellington and Wanganui. He was the brother of Rear-Admiral Richard Collinson
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Date:
1844
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-016
Description:
View of a river with junks and sampans in foreground, with an elaborate small two-storied Chinese pavilion across the river in the right foreground. Collins...
Date:
1843 - 1846
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-029
Description:
Inscriptions: Recto - title in pencil at base of entrance-way. Signature in ink in right-hand corner, parallel with curve of tiles around gate.
Quantity: 1 ...
Date:
1843 - 1846
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-010
Description:
A broad cultivated valley with paddy-fields in the foreground, ringed with hills, sea in the distance, viewed from a high standpoint
Right side joins A-252-...
Date:
1844
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-021
Description:
View of a river with junks and sampans in the foreground, and a two-storied Chinese building across the river in the right foreground. Forms the right-hand ...
Date:
1843 - 1846
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-012
Description:
Hilly area, with dwellings on steep flanks, features annotated and a seaside area to the right, with houses along the beach.
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physic...
Date:
1843
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-007
Description:
A large group of men carrying a column up a ramp to the left of a three-storied building with doric columns, scaffolding and men raising doric columns in the...
Date:
1844
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-017
Description:
View of steep hills with houses and trees on left, dropping to harbour with islands on right.
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Pencil on cream...
Date:
1843 - 1846
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-011
Description:
Close-up view of valley seen from above with paddy-fields, houses and palm trees and a high hill behind. The left side joins to A-252-010 to form a panorama...
Date:
1843 - 1846
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-028
Description:
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper
Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].
Date:
1846
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-031
Description:
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper
Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].
Date:
1843
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-009
Description:
Panoramic view from a high hill, looking across a strait or harbour towards China from Hong Kong. Several buildings visible in foreground. Details indicate...
Date:
1844
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-018
Description:
View of a harbour with European sailing ships and distant hills. A closer view in the foreground of houses and other buildings, roads and gardens. Colour n...
Date:
1846
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-048
Description:
View from across a road or stream of the buildings of St John's College (Bishop's, Auckland) at Purewa (Meadowbank), with the schoolroom and Bishop Selwyn's ...
Date:
1846
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-042
Description:
A row of houses on a street corner with newly cut clay banks. There are several people standing around. "The church" (St Paul's Church) is indicated on th...
Date:
1848
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-078/079
Description:
A two-part panorama of an extensive view of the Wairarapa across the plain formed by the Ruamahanga River in the Pihautea area, South Wairarapa (between the ...
Date:
1848
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-076/077
Description:
A two-part panorama of an extensive view of the Wairarapa across the plain formed by the Ruamahanga River in the Pihautea area, South Wairarapa (between the ...
Date:
1846
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-037
Description:
View of St John's College, Purewa (now Meadowbank) Auckland with other associated houses, seen from a hill across a stream. The College is on the skyline
O...
Date:
1846
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902; Paipai, Kawana Pitiroi, -1884
Ref:
A-292-032
Description:
Details of facial moko drawn by Kawana of Putiki Pa, Wanganui, with his name written below. The front of a whare drawn by Collinson and a seated portrait of ...
Date:
1843
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-008
Description:
People possibly in Hong Kong
On verso of A-292-007
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Pencil 190 x 268 mm
Transfers: From Manuscripts & Arch...
Date:
1844
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Ref:
A-292-019
Description:
View of a paved and porched courtyard with garden, leading to a front door into a house on the left
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