Robley: Te Ropere, 1840—1930
Group Portraits
Group Portraits
116. Kauri Gum Diggers from Katikati, at Te Papa 1865
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w/c, pencil & ink on white cart.
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207 × 297 mm.
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NMNZ Collection FA 830
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Purchased from the artist by the N.Z. Govt, 1905
117. Portraits at Waimapu (1865)
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w/c on white cart.
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212 × 278 mm.
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NMNZ Collection FA 744
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Purchased from the Artist by the N. Z Govt, 1905
Inscriptions
Verso: (pencil, R's hand) inverse
[sketch of soldiers & tents in landscape]
Robley Album: (ink, R's hand)
“39/ Portraits at Waimapu E.C./tatued man/upper lip plucked of hair (1865) G. Robley/Maoris.”
118. [Three Portraits] (1865)
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w/c on white paper
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198 × 215 mm.
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NMNZ Collection FA 1704
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Purchased from the Artist by the NZ Govt, 1905
Inscriptions
Verso: (pencil, R's hand) centre [↑]
[sketch of houses/tents/barracks.]
Robley Album: (ink, R's hand)
“31/Portraits Young Man untatued/woman tatued (sic.) chin like a man/lips/round nostrils/between eyebrows/corners of mouth//old man [tattooed] line from nostril to chin// young [man] untatued/ /G. Robley/ 1865.”