Title: National Centennial Exhibition of New Zealand Art Catalogue

Editor: A. H. McLintock

Publication details: Department of Internal Affairs, 1940, Wellington

Part of: The New Zealand Centennial Publications

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General Horatio Gordon Robley

Horatio Gordon Robley was born at Madeira in 1840. In 1862 he was appointed lieutenant instructor in musketry, and came to New Zealand in 1864 on the transport Australian. Robley served throughout the Maori wars and made many sketches of New Zealand and Maori life for English illustrated papers. After extensive militarypage 63experience in New Zealand and elsewhere he retired with the rank of major-general in 1887 and lived in London until his death in 1930. In 1905 the New Zealand Government purchased for the Dominion Museum seventy of Robley's water colour sketches, mainly scenes in the Tauranga campaign.

262            MOKO AND WHAKAIRO (water colour)

263            MATATA, 1865 (water colour)

Lent by the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington