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Date: 1852 - 1853

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-009

Description: A panoramic view over the Hurunui River with a mountain range in the background. Possibly an unfinished work. 'Our new run' was Stonyhurst, Scargill, Hurunui, established by Charles Clifford, Weld's cousin and business partner, in 1851. Weld returned to New Zealand in December 1852 and would have first visited Stonyhurst about then. Other Titles - Hurunui Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 90 x 275 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1863

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-006

Description: View looking up a small stream towards a bridge, with flax, toetoe, cabbage trees and perhaps manuka, looking towards hills in the background. Brackenfield was in North Canterbury, near the Kowai River Compare an almost identical view by Georgina Bowen 'Approach to Mr Weld's house Brackenfield on the Kowai, Canty, NZ [January 1863]' (Non-atl-p-0053-013). Inscriptions: Mount recto - Brackenfield, South Island (mount now discarded). On verso, in ink, in Weld's hand: Bridge near the lodge, Brackenfield January 29 1864 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 131 x 254 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1864 - 1866

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Chamier, George, 1842-1915; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-014

Description: Shows part of Mount Grey Station with its house and outbuildings, windmill in the centre, Mount Grey in the background Attributed on acquisition to the Library to F. A. Weld, like the rest of the Scrope/Weld collection. However removal of its backing revealed a pencilled title in Weld's hand 'Leithfield New Zealand by George Chamier' Other Titles - [Mount Grey Station with windmill] Inscriptions: Verso - Leithfield New Zealand by George Chamier [in pencil in the hand of former owner, F. A. Weld] The artist was a surveyor in the Kowai Road district, 1864-1866. He left for England in 1867 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 135 x 223 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1850 - 1860

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-002

Description: A waterfall in a crevasse, surrounded by flax, cabbage trees and grassland, with part of a fence visible in the middle ground to the right. A pukeko is running past in the foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 245 x 170 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1855

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-003

Description: Shows the fast-flowing river, with mountains in the distance, and a cliff face at the left. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 115 x 165 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1862

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Hogg, Neville William (Dr), 1927-2007; Cornes, Don, active 1974-1995

Reference: B-121-020

Description: Shows Weld's third New Zealand home "Brackenfield" near Amberley with his wife and two oldest children in the foreground. A horse is beside Mrs Weld and the two children. The house and garden look newly established with clumps of cabbage trees and flaxes in flower and flower gardens closer to the house. There is a conservatory to the right of the house and another building, probably a barn, to the far right. To the left of the house is a small chapel. The Welds married in March 1859, so the two children, two-and-a half years later are likely to be the two oldest. Weld purchased the initial 304 acres of land for Brackenfield in July 1861. The 16-room kauri house, its timber shipped from Auckland, was demolished in 1964. Weld also laid out the park-like grounds and imported English deer and game birds. The chapel, one of the first Catholic churches in Canterbury, was moved from the Brackenfield entrance in the 1950s to the main road through Amberley Other Titles - Amberley Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Brackenfield N Z F.A.W. Nov 1862 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 248 x 358 mm Provenance: Purchased by Don Cornes in Melbourne from Julian Sterling, owner of Southern Cross Gallery, Exhibition Street, ca 1973. Brought to New Zealand. (Information from Don Cornes, personal communication 19 April 1995). Purchased at Dunbar Sloane's, Wellington, by Dr Neville Hogg for $1400 in 1977.

Date: 1864

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-019

Description: View above bush-clad coastal cliffs, looking south towards the sea. A man and his dog are seated in the foreground. Stoneyhurst was Weld's own pastoral run Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 230 x 335 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1850

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-011

Description: Shows a tent and shelter with camp fire on the nearer (south) side of the river. On the far side are two Maori whare and two food storage platforms. A range of foothills of the Southern Alps, including Mount Grey, is in the distance. In the centre foreground by the tent, are a European man, woman and child, probably the Godley family. Two further people are by the campfire and tent on the right. There are flax bushes and scrub on the south side of the river, and a cabbage tree on the north side Compare a very similar view in Canterbury Museum titled by Weld 'Camp, banks of Courtenay (Waimakariri) Canterbury Plains, Dec 5th, 1850'. The Canterbury Museum view contains more people and a clearer view of the shelter and camp fire on the right. On Dec 5th 1850, Weld camped on the south bank of the Waimakariri with John Robert Godley, Charlotte Godley and their three-year old son Arthur Godley, as well as Charles Torlesse, Charles Hunter Brown, E J Wakefield and a surveyor, Mr Boys. Charlotte Godley wrote to her mother about the camp 'The little tent, just big enough for a bed for us three ... The flax bushes and grass grew all about, higher than our tent ... As it got dark, a party of natives, who had been assembling at some huts just across the river, came over in a canoe to pay us a visit ... Next morning we were up early, and ... had to cross the river in a canoe, the horses having to be swum over' (Godley, Charlotte. Letters from early New Zealand. Christchurch, 1951, pp 143-144). The man seated in the tent is likely to be John Robert Godley, while Charlotte Godley will be the woman holding the hand of their small son Arthur by the river. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 245 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1850

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-012

Description: View at the sea shore, with bluffs and a small beach, probably north of the Haumuri Bluffs, North Canterbury. Maori are launching a canoe and another canoe is on shore. There are also a fish-drying rack, two small whare and four other Maori. The Seaward Kaikoura Range is nearby in the background There is a similar watercolour titled Amuri Bluff, 1850, in Canterbury Museum. The area now known as Amuri is inland in North Canterbury. The area depicted in this view is the Haumuri Bluffs, on the East coast, south of the Kaikoura Peninsula and Oaro. Other Titles - Haumuri Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - on mount, discarded by the Library. Title and date. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 170 x 245 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1850 - 1852

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891

Reference: B-139-004

Description: Shows view of Lyttelton looking towards the immigration barracks, John Robert Godley's house, and the Sumner Road. Shows surrounding houses including one on the hillside above the Sumner Road, with the flagpole outside it. Assumed to be by Weld because of similarity in style to depictions of Lyttleton at the same time, said to be by Weld, held at Canterbury Museum, especially one taken from the same spot and dated 1852. Note long parallel brush strokes, fence palings, ploughed fields. Likely to be slightly after 1850. Compare William Fox's Passengers by the Cressy Landing drawn in December 1850. Weld's painting shows extra buildings and the barracks of the 1850 view converted into houses. It does not show Holy Trinity Church, built and blown down in 1853, but the church might be out of sight on the left from this angle. However, a Canterbury Museum watercolour taken from the identical spot by Mary Townsend is dated 1850. The vendors had this work catalogued as 'School of William Fox', dated ca 1851 Other Titles - Lyttelton, New Zealand c. 1851 Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Lyttelton, New Zealand c.1851; Unsigned. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 195 x 295 mm.

Date: 1850

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-010

Description: Shows a night-time camping scene, lit by a campfire, with members of the six-strong camping party (a woman and five men) seated around the campfire, some of them in the entrance to a tent at the left. The tent uses a flowering cabbage tree as a ridge-pole. The scene may show John Robert Godley, Charlotte Godley (and possibly their son Arthur), as well as Charles Torlesse, Edward Jerningham Wakefield, Hunter Brown and Mr Boys. In a letter to her mother, starting 13 December, Charlotte Godley describes being led on a camping trip with Weld, including camping at the edge of Rangiora Bush on 6 December 1950. She writes of their camp being 'just on the edge of thick, almost impenetrable wood, with very fine trees; and our little tent with a fire at the door, quite shaded over by the tall waving toi-toi grass, and the large one for the gentlemen a little beyond, with such a magnificent fire ... Mr Weld ... went and got me a bouquet ... it was the flower of the cabbage tree ... ' (Godley, Charlotte. Letters from early New Zealand (Christchurch, 1951), p 145. Other Titles - Rangiora, North Canterbury Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 90 x 110 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.