IMAGE
Liardet, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn, 1799-1878 :[View from the South West near the Tuamarina Hotel, of the hill on which the Wairau Massacre occurred, June 17th 1848 [i.e.1843], with the Monument erected to commemorate the sad event...March 9th 1866 ... [1866?]
- Date
- 1866
- By
- Liardet, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn, 1799-1878
- Reference
- B-035-018
- Description
Flax and toitoi in the foreground, a group of Pakeha and Maori to the right, the Tuamarina Hotel with verandah and a shed in the middle ground, the Picton-Blenheim road with horse-drawn carriage, telegraph poles alongside and the hill with a monument where the Wairau Affray occurred in 1843
Liardet painted two copies of this scene. The Library holds an almost identical watercolour at C-030-017
Liardet was passing through Tuamarina to investigate iron sand deposits in the Nelson area when he painted this view.
Quantity: 1 photograph(s) black & white.
Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour 240 x 350 mm
Provenance: Cowan left the painting with the Rutherford family at Canvastown and when their possessions were dispersed, an aunt of the owner bought the picture, said to be an "oil and watercolour with Indian Ink" [i.e. probably watercolour with Indian ink, possibly with gum arabic]. Information from the donor of the photograph, Tuamarina, 11.7.1955
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 photograph(s) black & white, Works of art, Watercolours, Landscapes (Representations), Photograph of watercolour 240 x 350 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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