Horatio Gordon Robley

Major General Horatio Gordon Robley

(Funchal, Maderia 1840 - 1930 London)

Portrait of Chief Tuterei Karewa, Ngāti Maru Tribe, New Zealand

Watercolour over pencil, heightened with black ink and touches of white;

signed lower right: H.G. Robley, inscribed on a separate piece of paper: TUTEREI KAREWA / Chief Thames Ngati maru tribe,

further inscribed on two labels attached to the reverse: No 3 of Maori Collection - / 1864 / Portrait of TUTEREI KAREWA / Ngati Maru tribe Thames / partly tattooed – / [T]hame[s] 64 back of pot[rait]

285 by 205 mm