Mount Egmont from Oakura.

Date Created

1864

Identifier

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 75/136
a13183

Description

Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: M.t Egmont from Oakura 28 June 1864; on original mount: Oakura stream on the Coast near Taranaki. Capt. Trajet & Surgeon Hope 57 Reg.t were shot here in an ambush early in 1863. This began the war -

Extent

175 x 250 mm

Medium

watercolour & opaque white with scumble on grey paper

Temporal Coverage

Nineteenth century

Provenance

Given by Dr H.D. Skinner, Dunedin, 1948.

Is Part Of

Williams

Files

a13183.jpg

Citation

Williams, E. A. (Edward Arthur), 1824-1898, “Mount Egmont from Oakura.,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed December 23, 2024, https://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/4913.