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This watercolour by the popular artist John Gully shows the settlement of New Plymouth, including forts, harbour and countryside.

A print of this work was created and sent to the British Government by Governor Gore Browne on 13 March 1860, a week before full-scale war erupted in the area. It was filed as ‘Papers relating to the recent disturbance in New Zealand’. One cause of the conflict was Gore Browne’s acceptance of an offer to buy contested Waitara land that contributed to the Taranaki and New Zealand Land Wars of the 1860s: www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/taranaki-wars

This image was published in the United Kingdom, becoming the only New Zealand view to appear in a British Parliamentary paper in the period up to 1875. As Anthony Ellis notes, the description of New Plymouth which accompanies the view was not complimentary about the settlement:

"The town consists of a struggling village on a skirt of flat land, which is enclosed and commanded by a higher table land encircling the town in the form of a crescent. One end of this crescent is Marsland Hill, on which the barrack stands, and on the other extreme we are about to erect a stockade. The intervening space between the barrack and this block-house is about three quarters of a mile, but the ground is broken by ravines and swamps and covered with fern, so that what is delineated in the New Zealand Company's plan as squares and streets is in reality wild land, much tormented, and well adapted to cover and conceal the approach of an enemy. Isolated cottages dotted about at intervals, the town being confined to little more than a single street on the shore.

The inland country generally is covered with high fern and dense forest, some of which is almost impenetrable to Europeans, and is everywhere broken by ravines and streams which are thrown off Mount Egmont [Taranaki]. There is a native pah in New Plymouth . . . and there are numerous pahs in every direction… The proposed blockhouses, which look so imposing in the sketch, may be described as wooden guard-houses, large enough to contain twenty men each. They are not yet constructed."

The large redoubt in the centre is Marsland Hill Barracks, which was constructed in March 1856 on top of Pukaka Pā. By the start of the Taranaki Wars, Marsland Hill was the heart of a trench system that encircled the centre of the town and a naval camp commanding the surfboat landing place at Puke Ariki.

Archives Reference: ADCZ W146 Box 5/ 1 [SEP No.1] archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=20388439

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Date circa 1850
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source Watercolour of New Plymouth, by John Gully c.1850s
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John Gully  (1819–1888)  wikidata:Q6236564
 
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J. Gully
Description New Zealand painter, surveyor and art educator
Date of birth/death 1819 Edit this at Wikidata 1 November 1888 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bath Nelson
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