IMAGE
Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :Trail of death [ca 1957].
- Date
- 1863 - 1956 - 1885 - 1866 - 1957 - 1886
- Reference
- B-140-009
- Description
A six-panelled account of the deaths of 7 surveyors in Canterbury in the 1860s and 1885. They were Henry Whitcombe (mistakenly called George by the artist) who drowned while crossing the Teremakau River with Jacob Louper (correctly Lauper) in 1863; Carleton (correctly Charlton) Howitt and two others (Robert Little and Henry Miller) drowned in Lake Brunner in 1863, their packs found by the sole survivor, James Belgrave Hammett; Charles Townshend (correctly Townsend), drowned while crossing the Grey River in 1863; George Dobson, shot by the Maungatapu murderers in 1866; and Edward Lake Paske, who died in a snowstorm in the Clarence Valley in 1885 (correctly 1886), followed by another member of his party, Hugh Thompson who died in similar circumstances on the same trip.
These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore.
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm.
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- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s]. / Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Conjectural works, Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :Trail of death [ca 1957].. Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].. Ref: B-140-009. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22763873More information can be found in our terms of use.