IMAGE
Hawkins, William Webster b. 1842 :How Garforth and I came to grief on the raft I constructed ... [December? 1866]
- Date
- 1866
- By
- Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918
- Reference
- E-370-001-1
- Description
Garforth and Hawkins, (Hawkins was tutor to the children of J. D. Tetley of Flaxbourne Station, Marlborough), one swimming and one seated (naked) on a raft in the breakers by the water's edge, with two boys and two dogs cheering them on from the beach. Several buildings visible at the foot of hills beyond the shoreline. The account below the drawing describes the construction and use by the two men of a makeshift fishing raft. While swimming with the boys, the two men tried the raft, were swept off shore, and had to abandon it and swim to shore.
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Ink, 95 x 205 mm
- Additional description
Microfilm copies available in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room. Use MS-Copy-Micro-0457
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :Illustrations of New Zealand 1865?-1867 / Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :Illustrations of New Zealand 1865?-1867
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Ink, 95 x 205 mm
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