Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Arthur Williams (c. 1824-1898)

Mount Egmont, Taranaki

细节

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Arthur Williams (c. 1824-1898)
Mount Egmont, Taranaki
signed with monogram and inscribed 'Mount Egmont/Taranaki/EW' (lower left), with inscription '"In New Zealand"/Sketch by Col. Williams RHA given to Col C U Shuttleworth 1872.' on the reverse
watercolour heightened with white
13 3/8 x 9½in. (33.9 x 24.2cm.)

拍品专文

Williams took part in the Waikato and Taranaki campaigns, sending sketches of the campaigns home with letters to his mother and eldest sister in 1864-5. A large collection of his work is now in the Hocken Library, Dunedin.