Places

Date: 1860

By: Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861

Reference: A-306-002-a

Description: Shows house of Bishop Hobhouse in Nelson Inscriptions: Recto - top left - A. Small outdoor bedrooms. 1 very lofty - Mr Tudor's, & Mr Philpotts. B. Great dirty lumber [?!] room over Hall (dining, not entrance). C. Roof of passage. D. My room. E. Chapel. F. Back kitchen. G. Cooking-hut. O. Entrance. According to map, probably by Maria Nicholson, the house was in Grattan Street in The Wood area of Nelson city. According to Shirley Tunnicliffe, Maria Nicholson lived with the Hobhouses from Easter to June 1860. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy of ink drawing 144 x 245 mm

Date: 1860

By: Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861; Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997

Reference: A-306-010

Description: Shows house in Nelson rented by Bishop Hobhouse 1859-63. Shows a shingled roof, a long verandah with creeper growing over it, neatly planted garden, circular flower bed. The house is seen from the north (see plan on verso of A-306-004), with the skylighted chapel at left, and the bedrooms belonging to Mr Philpott and Mr Tudor at the right. There is a hatted figure sitting in the window of Mr Philpott's room, and another figure on the verandah. This sketch is virtually identical to those at A-306-005 and A-306-006, but there is less detail. There are numbers added, and a key at the top left, specifying the chapel, roof of bedrooms, over small spare room and drawing room, and the outside bedrooms. According to Shirley Tunnicliffe, it is Mary Hobhouse's writing of the title and key at the top. According to a hand-drawn map deposited at the same time, and probably also drawn by Maria Nicholson, this house was in Grattan Street, in The Wood area of Nelson. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy, 145 x 257 mm. Provenance: Donated by Shirley Tunnicliffe in 1997.

Date: 1860

By: Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861; Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997

Reference: A-306-005

Description: Shows house in Nelson rented by Bishop Hobhouse 1859-63. Shows a shingled roof, a long verandah with creeper growing over it, y planted garden, circular flower bed. The house is seen from the north (see plan on verso of A-306-004), with the skylighted chapel at left, and the bedrooms belonging to Mr Philpott and Mr Tudor at the right. There is a hatted figure sitting in the window of Mr Philpott's room, and another figure on the verandah. This sketch is virtually identical to that at A-306-006, but the shading is slightly heavier. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [Title] According to a hand-drawn map deposited at the same time, and probably also drawn by Maria Nicholson, this house was in Grattan Street, in The Wood area of Nelson. Maria Nicholson lived with the Hobhouses from Easter to June 1860l, according to Shirley Tunnicliffe. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 142 x 235 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs A D Payne in 1997.

Date: 1859-1861 (1939)

By: Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861

Reference: MS-1717

Description: She describes the voyage out on the Eclipse, 1858-1859, and her first impressions of New Plymouth and its inhabitants. Her comments on colonial society are detailed and perceptive Maria came to New Zealand in 1859 on the Eclipse as governess to the family of the Rev H H Brown, a clergyman at Omata, New Plymouth. In 1860 she was evacuated to nelson, and shortly afterwards dismissed from the Brown's service. Unable to pay her fare back to England, she reluctantly worked as governess to Lulu Eyes, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the province. Maria stayed with the Eyes family at Wairau for one year, She returned to England, having decided that the shortage of artistic talent together with the burden of domestic work was not to her liking Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue cloth)

Date: 1860

From: [Nicholson, Maria], fl 1859-62 :Episcopal [house] Nelson [from the south. 1860], with map on recto by Mary Hobhouse.

By: Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997; Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861

Reference: A-306-003-1

Description: Recto shows house in Nelson rented by Bishop Hobhouse 1859-63. Shows shingled roof, ladder on roof, chimneys, basins and bowls on ledge outside cooking hut. Chapel at right has skylights in the roof. Shows garden in foreground, with water-pump and trough, trees and shrubs. Verso shows plan of house from above. According to a hand-drawn map deposited at the same time, and probably also drawn by Maria Nicholson, this house was in Grattan Street, in The Wood area of Nelson. According to Shirley Tunnicliff, Maria Nicholson lived with the Hobhouse family from Easter to June 1860. Other Titles - Bishop Hobhouse's residence and chapel, Nelson, from the south Verso has plan of house by Mary Hobhouse. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 142 x 235 mm.

Date: 1860

By: Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861; Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997

Reference: A-306-002

Description: Shows house in Nelson rented by Bishop Hobhouse 1859-62. Key indicates small outdoor bedrooms, great dirty lumber room over hall, roof of passage, my room, chapel, back kitchen, cooking-hut, and entrance. Shows garden in foreground, with water-pump and trough, storage barrel, chapel bell, and trees and shrubs. According to a hand-drawn map deposited at the same time, and probably also drawn by Maria Nicholson, this house was in Grattan Street, in The Wood area of Nelson. According to Shirley Tunnicliffe, Maria Nicholson lived with the Hobhouse family from Easter to June 1860. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 143 x 250 mm.

Date: 1859 - 1863

By: Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861; Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997

Reference: A-306-009

Description: Shows view looking down on the town of Nelson framed by the slopes of Washington valley with a road going towards the town. Two churches are visible with the Anglican church on the hill at the right most clearly distinguishable. In the centre of the town is the Oddfellows Hall, with the Provincial Council Chambers further to the left on a slight rise. There are a few houses alongside the road in the valley in the foreground. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 229 x 323 mm.

Date: 1859 - 1863

By: Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861; Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997

Reference: A-306-006

Description: Shows house in Nelson rented by Bishop Hobhouse 1859-63. Shows a shingled roof, a long verandah with creeper growing over it, neatly planted garden, circular flower bed. The house is seen from the north (see plan on verso of A-306-004), with the skylighted chapel at left, and the bedrooms belonging to Mr Philpott and Mr Tudor at the right. There is a hatted figure sitting in the window of Mr Philpott's room, and another figure on the verandah. This sketch is virtually identical to that at A-306-005, but the shading is slightly lighter. According to a hand-drawn map deposited at the same time, and probably also drawn by Maria Nicholson, this house was in Grattan Street, in The Wood area of Nelson. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 146 x 236 mm.

Date: 1859 - 1863

By: Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861; Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997

Reference: A-306-008

Description: Shows Anglican church at Nelson on the top of a rise, seen from a lower vantage point with trees and shrubs in the foreground. Miss Nicholson wrote: "I am just now doing some pen and ink drawings of the Church for the Bishoip to send to England. It is a proof of the low artisitc talent here that my attempts are thought worth anything. However, a Taranaki artist has lately come and is getting ample employment in taking views of the town." Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 214 x 156 mm.

Date: 1860

By: Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861; Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997

Reference: A-306-004

Description: Shows house in Nelson rented by Bishop Hobhouse 1859-63. Shows shingled roof, ladder on roof, chimneys, basins and bowls on ledge outside cooking hut. Chapel at right has skylights in the roof. Shows garden in foreground, with water-pump and trough, trees and shrubs. Virtually identical to the drawing at A-306-003-1, but with slightly heavier shading. According to a hand-drawn map deposited at the same time, and probably also drawn by Maria Nicholson, this house was in Grattan Street, in The Wood area of Nelson. Maria Nicholson lived with the Hobhouse family from Easter to June 1860, according to Shirley Tunnicliffe. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 142 x 235 mm.

Date: 1860

From: [Nicholson, Maria], fl 1859-62 :Episcopal [house] Nelson [from the south. 1860], with map on recto by Mary Hobhouse.

By: Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997; Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861

Reference: A-306-003-2

Description: Shows plan of house from above, oriented with North at top. Chapel ("somewhat too large") is shown at right, "my room" in centre, bedrooms of Mr Philpott and Mr Tudor at top left beside the verandah. The cooking place and hall are at the left. There is a book room between the chapel and E[dmund]'s den. The hall has a "dirty, uninhabitable garret above". There is a circular fuchsia bed at top right, on the gravel. At the right is text: 'What is shaded has rooms above it in the roof. no walls. Edmund enclosed a little box for his own den off the passage. What is now Book-room was the old entrance hall - conveniently placed as there is no bell! The Hall was the old kitchen a dreary dirty dark room. We have lined it roughly with calico, put in more little windows, & use it as our dining room - The cooking place & washg shed are chiefly our contribution to Dr R's roofs.' This plan is on the verso of Episcopal [house] Nelson, thought to be by Maria Nicholson. A letter from Mary Hobhouse of June 2nd 1860, says "I have just been making a plan on the back of one of Miss Hobhouse's drawings to illustrate the subject of the house ..." According to a hand-drawn map deposited at the same time, and probably also drawn by Maria Nicholson, this house was in Grattan Street, in The Wood area of Nelson. Miss Nicholson lived with the Hobhouse family from Easter to June 1860. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 142 x 235 mm.