IMAGE
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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