IMAGE
Robley, Horatio Gordon 1840-1930 :Taratoa, lay preacher. Killed at Te Ranga, 21st June 1864.
- Date
- 1864
- By
- Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930
- Reference
- A-033-011
- Description
A three-quarter length portrait of Taratoa seated on a hillside in front of a palisade fence on the skyline 60 paces away. A flag flies on the flagpole by the fence. The flag has a red background, with (top left to bottom right) a Christian cross, an inverted new moon, and a 5-pointed star. Taratoa wears a rural European grey smock and bark (grey?) neckerchief.
Based on a photograph. Robley is not thought to have met Taratoa
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - H G Robley; Recto - bottom left - The flagstaff 60 paces in rear; Verso - Portrait of Taratoa lay preacher (Selwyn), a Ngaiterangi chief killed at Te Ranga 21 June 64 / whose name is on the RAWIRI monument at Te Papa cemetry / who was Maori commander [may refer to Rawiri]. A window at Lichfield Cathedral placed by Bishop Selwyn to this lay preacher who drew up the humane order for fighting; as to protecting wounded men and bodies of the dead from desecration (as had lately happened at Te Ahu Ahu fight). (old native manner there)(at Te Ahu Ahu Captain Lloyds 57th Regt head was cut off, and some of the mens and Victorians History; Verso - top centre - [Labelled sketch of flag]
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour 230 x 183 mm.
Transfers: May have been transferred from Robley papers in Manuscripts and Archives..
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Portraits, Watercolour 230 x 183 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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