Exotic Intruders
Bullock-Webster Diaries
Bullock-Webster Diaries.
Many of the drawings in this book are from a set of diaries written and illustrated during the 1880s by Harry Bullock-Webster, who travelled around the Waikato as an agent for a nineteenth century 'Queen Street farmer', Thomas Russell. Between 1881 and 1884 Harry Bullock-Webster travelled around the Waikato, Bay of Plenty, East Coast and Wanganui districts visiting the large agricultural estates in which Russell had interests. Bullock Webster was a very keen huntsman and was responsible for the formation of the Waikato Hunt Club in the 1890s. He published an abbreviated version of his diaries in 1935, and wrote, 'I have consistently loved the things which, as a boy, my Dad taught me were best worth caring for—HORSES AND HOUNDS.' His diaries are now held by the Waikato Art Museum. While his drawings are of no great artisitic merit, they convey a lively picture of the people and animals of colonial New Zealand.
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