Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962 :Gunboat on the Waikato [ca 1864]. 1922

Date
1922 - 1864
By
Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962; Liverpool, Cecil George Savile Foljambe, Viscount Hawkesbury and 1st Earl of, 1846-1907; Cowan, James, 1870-1943
Reference
A-138-025
Description

Shows attack of gunboat `Pioneer' during the New Zealand wars, with the gunboat in the centre of the river and answering fire from the riverbank to the left

Based on an engraving in the Illustrated London news 'The war in New Zealand. The gun-boat Pioneer at anchor off Meremere on the Waikato River, reconnoitring the native position... January 1864. From a sketch by an officer of H. M. S. Curacao'. The officer/artist may be Lord Liverpool

Extended Title - Reproduced in The New Zealand Wars, v. 1, p. 311 by J Cowan

Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).

Physical Description: Monotone wash on photographic paper, 135 x 240 mm

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Curator required
Format
1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Monotone wash on photographic paper, 135 x 240 mm
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