Waipā Public Art

Indoor

Cambridge Settlement 1863

Date	Unknown
Mediums	Print
Physical description	A reproduction of a hand-drawn sketch of a small encampment by a river with soldiers in the foreground, framed.

Gustavus von Tempsky (1828-1868), was a member of the volunteer Forest Rangers in Aotearoa New Zealand during the land wars of 1863.

Von Tempsky was an amateur watercolourist who painted landscapes and the military campaign.

This artwork is a reproduction print of the military settlement in Cambridge during the Ngā Pakanga (Land Wars) of 1863.