Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :'English' blockaus Akaroa 18 Sept 1848. Mont Berard from Green's jetty, 18 Sept 1848.

Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :'English' blockaus Akaroa 18 Sept 1848. Mont Berard from Green's jetty, 18 Sept 1848.
Date
1848
Reference
E-333-004
Description

Two drawings on one page. The upper view is a defensive fort with a surrounding fence, a house to the left, looking south along the foreshore at Akaroa. The lower drawing is a view from the jetty looking back towards two houses on the shore with Mount Berard (Flag Peak) in the background

Other Titles - Blockhouse, Blockhaus

Quantity: 2 drawing(s).

Physical Description: Ink, on buff-coloured sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm

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Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848 / Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848
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2 drawing(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Ink, on buff-coloured sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm
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Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Mont Berard from Green's jetty. 18 Sept 1848.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-004-2

Description: The wharf and perhaps Green's house with a flagpole and another house to its right, Mount Berard (Flag Peak) rising to the south behind the town Mount Berard was later renamed Flag Peak Other Titles - Akaroa Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date [in ink] From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & pencil, 126 x 135, on buff-coloured sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm

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Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :'English' blockaus Akaroa 18 Sept 1848.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-004-1

Description: A defensive fort with a surrounding fence, a house to the left, looking south along the foreshore past a wharf at Akaroa. Located at the southern end of Akaroa township in 'English Town'. One of three blockhouses built by the French Navy after the Wairau Affray and hostilities between Maori and Pakeha in Northland and Wellington. The Akaroa blockhouses were never used. From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Other Titles - Blockhouse, Blockhaus Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date [in ink] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 106 x 135, on buff-coloured sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm