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Name/Title

Untitled

Bust portrait of a man with black hair and wearing a black t-shirt. Predominantly white background.

Accession No

A64.623

Name/Title

Untitled

Stylised portrait of a nude woman. Background in two blocks of colour - red and navy blue. The woman is rendered in pink and brown/black.

Accession No

A65.598

Name/Title

"Elizabeth Lackworthy"

A miniature oil painting of Elizabeth Lackworthy from Exeter (England). Contained in an oval wooden frame.

Accession No

A62.864

Name/Title

"Ambrose Lackworthy"

A miniature oil painting of Ambrose Lackworthy from Exeter (England). Contained in an oval wooden frame.

Accession No

A62.865

Name/Title

Colours of the Taranaki Rifle Volunteers

Colours of the Taranaki Rifle Volunteers. Colours have the words "Taranaki Volunteers / Waireka" in the centre. The colours were presented at a parade on Poverty Flat (now the site of Central School) on 25 June 1861.

Accession No

A66.790

Name/Title

"The Taranaki Regiment Colours"

Taranaki Regiment Colours "Primus in Armis", 1916-18. Presented by Governor General Viscount Galway in a ceremony at Pukekura Park, New Plymouth, on 22 March 1936.

Accession No

A66.789

Name/Title

"Taranaki Militia and Volunteers"

The colours, or standards, of the Taranaki Militia and Volunteers. The colours feature two flags and the British Crown.

Accession No

A66.725

Name/Title

Colours of the First Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment

Colours of the First Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment.

Accession No

A66.698

Name/Title

"Hurirapa Pa"

View of the Waitara Blockhouse, Hurirapa Pa at lower right middle ground with tents, people and canoes to the left, and river right foreground. Single flag flies on either side of the blockhouse.

Accession No

A65.626

Name/Title

"The Mouth of the Waitara from the camp"

View of the Waitara Blockhouse, Hurirapa Pa, at the mouth of the Waitara River. Blockhouse is to the left middleground, boat ("Tasmanian Maid") steaming up river at left middleground, and above this boat is a Maori burial ground.

Accession No

A87.259

Name/Title

"Camp Waitara"

View of "Camp Waitara". Maori figure standing on road in middle foreground, camp in background with flag flying.

Accession No

A87.258

Name/Title

Untitled (Bell Block Stockade)

Pencil drawing with watercolour wash showing the view from the western side of the Bell Block Stockade, 1860. Looking out over the Bell Village District and showing the Anglican and Primitive Methodist Churches, the Village Inn and the residence of James Marshall. Soldiers with cannon in foreground.

Accession No

A75.454

Name/Title

"Bell Block Stockade"

Bell Block Stockade in middle ground with a solitary soldier in red uniform standing guard to the right of the main building. Mount Taranaki/Egmont and ranges are visible in the background. The painting is inscribed with the date 1858 but the Bell Block Stockade was not constructed until 1860. The painting also only depicts the Bell Block blockhouse, thus must have been painted before the stockade was constructed around the blockhouse.

Accession No

A65.902

Name/Title

"The War in New Zealand. The 57th Regiment taking a Maori Redoubt on the Katikara River, Taranaki"

Column of Pakeha troops advancing on earthwalled redoubt with Maori defenders leaving by rear. Foreground skirmishing between regimental troops and Maori forces. Huts on redoubt interior are filled with smoke billowing above. Kaitake, Pouakai and Mt Taranaki/Egmont in background (all with exaggerated height perspective). Printed text along lower edge reads as follows: "THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND : THE 57TH REGIMENT TAKING A MAORI REDOUBT ON THE KATIKARA RIVER, TARANAKI. - SEE PAGE 222". The illustration is taken from page 212 of the Illustrated London News, August 29, 1863. Printed text is visible through the image on the verso of the page.

Accession No

A95.104

Name/Title

Untitled (Omata Stockade)

Omata Stockade with Mt Taranaki/Egmont and Pouakai Ranges visible in the background. Built on Ngaturi Pa, Omata.

Accession No

A65.890

Name/Title

"Volunteer Rifles going on duty, New Plymouth, 1860"

Volunteer Rifles going on duty, New Plymouth. View from the Gover Street/Woolcombe Terrace area and looking back over central New Plymouth to the mountain, 1860.

Accession No

A65.892

Name/Title

Untitled (New Plymouth from Marsland Hill)

Sketched just prior to the artist's departure on the evening of Friday 3 August 1860 this painting records troops from the 40th Regiment disembarking from the sloop "H.M.S. Victoria". Amongst the other vessels off shore are the "Tasmanian Maid", the "Airedale" and the "George Henderson". Also depicted is the original St. Mary's Church and parade of Imperial Troops and Militia.

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A65.883

Name/Title

"Pariaka [sic] 1884"

View of Parihaka village with surrounding hills and bush. Mt Taranaki / Egmont visible in the background.

Accession No

A75.517

Name/Title

"Taranaki (New Plymouth), the Village-Capital of the Province of New Plymouth, North Island, New Zealand"

Depicts scattered residences in New Plymouth from seaward and of Liardet Street. Methodist Church (right), Marsland Hill with barracks and St Mary's (right) with Mt Taranaki/Egmont and Pouakai in background.

Accession No

A95.251

Name/Title

"R.M.S. 'Highland Laddie' on fire 100 miles east of Pernambuco"

Coloured ink sketch depicting a vessel at sea with smoke billowing from it. Sea is blue and ship predominantly black with traces of red and white.

Accession No

A70.042

Name/Title

"A N.Z. seaman in London who gave the V sign to Mr Churchill was rewarded by being presented with the cigar Mr Churchill was smoking - news item"

Cartoon commenting on the possibilities within New Zealand politics if people followed the precedent of a New Zealand Navy seaman who gave the V sign to Mr Churchill and was rewarded with his cigar.

Accession No

A95.880

Name/Title

"Parihaka"

Watercolour depicting Parihaka November 1881. Brown whare middle foreground. Te Whiti o Rongomai's house - Miti mai te Arero - is on the left of the middleground. The other white European-style building on the right is the Parihaka bank. Large trees behind village. Mount Taranaki / Egmont in background. Large group of people gathered between whare in the foreground on the lower right.

Accession No

TM2000.246

Name/Title

"Old House, North Egmont"

Exterior view of North Egmont Camphouse, Mount Taranaki. Several figures are depicted standing in the foreground in a group and on the balcony of the Camphouse. One figure has skis over their shoulder. Snow on the ground. The Camphouse was built in Australia in 1855 and shipped to New Zealand for use as one of several military barrack buildings during the Taranaki Wars. The middle portion, pictured here, was sold to the Egmont Acclimatisation Society in 1893.

Accession No

A66.583

Name/Title

"New Plymouth from Marsland Hill 1860"

View from Marsland Hill of troops disembarking from 'H.M.V.S. Victoria'. Has legend at bottom left corner numbering and naming the sites.

Accession No

A66.213

Name/Title

"New Plymouth from Marsland Hill, New Zealand"

Troops from the 40th Regiment disembarking from "H.M.V.S. Victoria" on 3 August 1860. Amongst the other vessels off shore are the "Tasmanian Maid", the "Airedale" and the "George Henderson". Also depicted is the original St. Mary's Church and parade of Imperial Troops and Militia.

Accession No

A66.600