A soldier (Lieutenant) with the Royal Marines, serving in Spain from 1837 to 1839, on the China expedition from Feb., 1840, serving in Hong Kong and Amoy, then moving on with the Marines to New Zealand, to serve in Wellington in 1848. He was also a painter in watercolours and several of his paintings are among the sketches of Thomas Bernard Collinson (q.v.).
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Date:
1848
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Angas, George French, 1822-1886; White, Frederick John, active 1837-1848
Ref:
A-292-074
Description:
The man has full moko on his face, short curly hair and an ear adornment. Beyond him are parallel fence lines, possibly indicating the two sides of a path or...
Date:
1848
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
White, Frederick John, active 1837-1848
Ref:
A-292-072
Description:
A view of Wellington, looking up The Terrace, with gardens, fences and houses, two people walking up the road, the harbour on the left and Mt Cook and part o...
Date:
1848
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
Swainson, William, 1789-1855; White, Frederick John, active 1837-1848
Ref:
A-292-073
Description:
Red and blue European flowers in the foreground, otherwise a scene in a clearing in a native forest, probably in the Hutt Valley. The tree fern is prominent ...
Date:
1848 - 1849
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
White, Frederick John, active 1837-1848; Swainson, William, 1789-1855
Ref:
A-292-080
Description:
A single mamaku or black tree-fern in a clearing, a copy of a lithograph by William Swainson probably of a Hutt Valley scene.
Other native forest watercolo...
Date:
1848 - 1849
From:
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By:
White, Frederick John, active 1837-1848; Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863
Ref:
A-292-075
Description:
A copy, with some variations of a lithograph from an original drawing by William Swainson 'Fern-Tree', lithographed by Cuthbert Clarke at St John's College, ...
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