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404932
  • Title
    A view of the storming of John Heki's Pah, New Zealand, on the 8th. of May 1845
  • Call number
    V*/NZ Wars/4
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1845
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    404932
  • Physical Description
    1 drawings - watercolour with printed label - 32.8 x 55.4 cm image; 37.9 x 55.4 cm with label
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright:
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Finding Aids
    Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room, PXn 539
  • Related Material
  • General note

    The Sydney Morning Herald noted, on 10 July 1845, that a 'watercolour drawings by a late military gentleman ... taken on the spot ... of the "Storming of John Heki's Pah"' was to be published 'next Saturday'.
    This watercolour is very close to one by Cyprian Bridge, held in the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand. Bridge's watercolour is titled "Sketch of the action at Mawe, New Zealand, on the 8th May, 1845 by the forces under command of Lt Colonel Hulme 96th Regt...." Bridge (c.1808-1883) arrived in New Zealand in 1845 as a major of the 58th Regiment - see Una Platts, "Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists", Avon Fine Prints, 1980.
    Digital order no:Album ID : 975156
    Artists unknown.
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Titled on printed label pasted to bottom of image. Title continues "Respectfully Dedicated to the Officers, Military & Naval, engaged in that service, by their obedient Servants, / J.T. & A. Grocott, Printsellers 476, George Street, Sydney". Printed directly beneath image on label, from l. to r. " Natives 58th Main body in reserve Skirmishers John Heki's Pah 96th. & Seamen Rocket Party Natives carrying wounded"
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