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

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://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/4913.