Cordyline australis - New Zealand - Bay of Plenty Region
Artist unknown :Monument of the 43rd killed at the Gate Pah, Tauranga [1868]
Date: 1868
From: Artist and photographers unknown :[Watercolours of the Bay of Plenty and thermal regions, Atlantic and Indian Ocean islands, and Ireland; photographs of Dover, a Belgian monument, Ireland and New Zealand bush, 1866-1868]
Reference: A-443-015-1
Description: Shows a view of the monument commemorating 26 men of the 43rd Regiment who were killed in action or died of wounds received at Pukehinahina (Gate Pa) and Te Ranga in mid-1864. The monument itself is in the foreground on the right, with the white pickets of the cemetery showing in front of it. A number of trees, including cabbage trees and flax bushes, stand prominently to its left. From the headland Mount Maunganui can be seen in the background. Although not the same scene, this might usefully be compared to Henry Ambrose Scrivener's Burial ground at Tauranga New Zealand of those killed at the Gate Pah... 1864 (B-064-024) and Andrew Thomas H. Carbery's Cemetery at Te Papa, Tauranga (E-248-q-096), which show similar views prior to the monument's erection. Other Titles - Gate Pa Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Monument of the 43rd killed at the Gate Pah Tauranga [in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 134 x 245 mm