Places

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-080

Description: Left side of an image spread over a double page. Shows a pa on a plain with distant mountains. There is a low fence surrounding a group of low whare and tall drying platforms. From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 135 x 235 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-004-2

Description: The wharf and perhaps Green's house with a flagpole and another house to its right, Mount Berard (Flag Peak) rising to the south behind the town Mount Berard was later renamed Flag Peak Other Titles - Akaroa Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date [in ink] From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & pencil, 126 x 135, on buff-coloured sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-004-1

Description: A defensive fort with a surrounding fence, a house to the left, looking south along the foreshore past a wharf at Akaroa. Located at the southern end of Akaroa township in 'English Town'. One of three blockhouses built by the French Navy after the Wairau Affray and hostilities between Maori and Pakeha in Northland and Wellington. The Akaroa blockhouses were never used. From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Other Titles - Blockhouse, Blockhaus Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date [in ink] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 106 x 135, on buff-coloured sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-003

Description: Looking north along the foreshore at Akaroa, with a promontory in the foreground a bay beyond, various buildings along the foreshore and the church on a rise near the shore. The building on the far left on the foreshore is the house of [?] John Daly Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date [in ink] From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on buff-coloured on sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-005-1

Description: Shows Elie Bouriaud's house (right) and Waeckerle's timber mill (left) at Akaroa, with a couple walking towards it. The buildings are set among trees with a steep hill behind them. Beneath is a portrait of a bearded man wearing glasses, almost certainly Alfred Wills. The glasses have a distinctive ring shape along the arms The mill was located on the Grehan Stream. The house still stands on Rue Grehan Other Titles - Bouriaud Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - top image: The Mill & Boriot Sept 19 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, on page 230 x 140 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-004

Description: Two drawings on one page. The upper view is a defensive fort with a surrounding fence, a house to the left, looking south along the foreshore at Akaroa. The lower drawing is a view from the jetty looking back towards two houses on the shore with Mount Berard (Flag Peak) in the background Other Titles - Blockhouse, Blockhaus Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, on buff-coloured sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852; Nairn, Francis Edward, 1819?-1910; Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-333-026/027

Description: Sketch on the right shows a view across a plain with small round ponds from a camp fire beneath overhanging rocks, 'Commissioner's Cave, Ototara. The sketch on the left shows a man with a broad-brimmed hat, and patched trousers, leaning against the walls of a small wooden shelter, with a table and cooking pots on the ground beside him. It appears to be a copy of F. E. Nairn's 'Rakitawine of Te Hakataramea, Waitaki' (original sketch located at C-103-080-1) The view from the rock shelter identified as 'Commissioner's Cave' Ototara from Alfred Wills' drawing 'View from Commissioner's Cave, Ototara, looking southwest. Three of the curious round ponds on the plain. [Oct/Nov, 1848]. The Commissioner was likely to be Mantell, Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 'Copied' [possibly from drawings by Alfred Wills and Francis Nairn] Quantity: 2 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on page, 135 x 230 mm.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-104

Description: View on the foreshore, with a soldier and cannon in the foreground, houses and the blockhouse prominent to the left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-006

Description: View looking south along the coastline at Timaru showing several small European-style houses near the beach. From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-114

Description: A rough sketch of C. J. W. Cookson's homestead, Newbiggin, at Ilam in Christchurch (cf E-281-q-024). The house is a small single-storied dwelling with verandah along one side. The blur to the right represents Riccarton Bush. The Greek letters are a phonetic rendering of `Cookson'. Date 1852 suggested from dating of E-281-q-024 Other Titles - Cookson Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-080/081

Description: Shows Takitahi Pa on the South Canterbury Plains with the Southern Alps in the background. There is a low fence surrounding a group of low whare and tall food platforms. At the far right is another similar enclosure. The name Takitahi appears at the top right, partly overwritten by the names of the distant peaks: Rowley Peak, Mt Tyrrell [?], Mt Peel, S Dom. Other Titles - October Other Titles - Tarahaoa From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on double sketchbook page, 135 x 470 mm