IMAGE
Artist unknown :New Zealand warfare - attacking a pah [Storming the Waireka Pah, Taranaki ... 1863]
- Date
- 1860 - 1863 - 1940
- Reference
- PUBL-0098-02-24-06-lower
- Description
Shows an event of 1860 in which British soldiers are attacking the wooden palisades of a pa on a small hill, with hand-to-hand fighting and rifle-shooting in the foreground. A large flag flies from the palisades. Mount Taranaki is shown in the left distance.
From an illustration published in the "Illustrated Melbourne post" 20 October 1863, and possibly the "Illustrated Sydney news". The Waireka pa was attacked in 1860.
Drawings & Prints has a file print of the image from the "Illustrated Melbourne post", entitled "Storming the Waireka Pah, Taranaki - from a sketch by our special artist". This file print was supplied by the Mitchell Library, Sydney.
Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).
Physical Description: Offset print, 95 x 120 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s), Works of art, Engravings, Offset photomechanical prints, Conjectural works, Albums, Offset print, 95 x 120 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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Artist unknown :New Zealand warfare - attacking a pah [Storming the Waireka Pah, Taranaki ... 1863]. New Zealand. Internal Affairs Department :Making New Zealand; pictorial surveys of a century. Wellington, Department of Internal Affairs, 1940.. Ref: PUBL-0098-02-24-06-lower. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23074257More information can be found in our terms of use.