Additional Makers
Edward Arthur Williams (1824-1898)
Description
View looking south along the coastline at New Plymouth, with a solider standing on the beach in the right foreground. In the middle distance are the houses of New Plymouth and the fortified buildings on top of 'Mount Eliot' (The former site of the Maori pa 'Kawau' in New Plymouth)
A copy of an original by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams, 'From your special correspondent by the sad sea waves, 2 July 1864', a watercolour in the Hocken Library, formerly bound into Williams' scrapbook, p. 21.
Image Licence
All Rights Reserved
Image Credit
Alexander Turnbull Library
Location
Puke Ariki Library and Museum, New Plymouth Central, Ngāmotu, New Zealand
Country
New Zealand
Tags
Category
Landscapes & Seascapes
TWW Comment
By 1905 the hill had largely been demolished. Today it is the site of a combined library and museum. (Wikipedia)
