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By: Horsnaill, F, active 1900s; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-176-020

Description: Shows a rowing boat moored on the beach at the shore of a lake, mountains in the background Title from verso Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed in brushpoint: F Horsnaill Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 640 x 878 mm Provenance: Possibly collection of Alexander Turnbull, or of W F Barraud.

Date: 1849

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-113-005

Description: View looking across the waterfront past a road skirting a cliff towards part of the harbour, with from left, inscribed along the top, the Manse and Captain Cargill's house, the Resident Agent's Office (of the New Zealand Company), Mr C. H. Kettle's house, Mr Valpy's house, the Survey Office, and on far right the school and church. Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Inscriptions: Recto - features identified in ink along the top of the view. Signed, titled and dated in ink. Stamped with the New Zealand Company stamp, dated Jan 7 1850 and inscribed by the New Zealand Company No. 338. A watercolour in the Hocken Collections is very similar to this view. It is titled Dunedin, Otago, January 1849. It has been annotated by T. M. Hocken as showing the 'Emigrants barracks built of manuka ... site of back of Customhouse in Bond St' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash drawing 230 x 463 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull from Francis Edwards & Co, with other New Zealand Company material, London, 1915 Processing information: Formerly located at C-013-005

Date: 1839 - 1840

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: C-025-024

Description: Shows a still dark green river with a virgin kauri forest, low scrub and flax on its far bank. In the centre of the view is a row-boat, with Colonel William Wakefield in top hat seated in the stern, trailing an oar. The other occupants of the boat are a Maori named Te Whare, a Rotuman named Saturday, Dr George Robinson, Dr John Dorset and Charles Heaphy. Heaphy is thought to be the fourth from the right, the young man with brown hair and a moustache. There are several ducks on the river to the left. The scene is almost certainly the upper Wairoa River, as described by Colonel William Wakefield ' Higher up, where the river narrows to the breadth of the Thames at Kew, both sides presented magnificent forest - some entirely of kauri in a state of the greatest profusion' (quoted in The unknown Kaipara by Brian Byrne, p. 166). Shows an incident that occurred after the grounding of the Tory on 19 December 1839. Painted after the event and dated 1840. See Wakefield, E. J. Adventure in New Zealand, vol. 1 p. 156ff. The boat was being rowed from Te Kopuru up the Wairoa River. Other Titles - Kauri forest Colonel Wakefield Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signature and date; Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 287 x 457 mm on sheet 347 x 485 mm Provenance: Commissioned and owned by the New Zealand Company, London, until purchase in 1915 by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull per dealer Francis Edwards.

Date: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?; Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-030-016

Description: Extensive view across a bay towards a beach and headland, with houses, barracks, a parade ground with redcoats drilling, the Red Ensign flag flying beside the largest house high on the hill to the left, the home of Colonel Cyprian Bridge. There are several small boats on the water. Nobby Island is on the left. Other buildings along the waterfront, from left, include barracks, in the centre the magazine of the 58th Regiment, a sentry box (set back from the waterfront), the hospital, the canteen and the officers' residence on the right The title on Bridge's pencil sketch (f-E-320-014) identifies his own house 'where I was quartered 3 years and a half, the parade ground, officers' houses and our pleasure boats in the foreground'. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signature & 58; Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 322 x 538 mm Provenance: The sketchbook was acquired by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull in July 1893. Transfers: Removed from sketchbook E-320-f, along with C-018-020, an ink and wash version of the same view. Had been folded to fit in the sketchbook. Still in the sketchbook are Cyprian Bridge's "View of my house and cantonment at Wahapu" (p.14), probably the drawing copied by Williams; also on p. 12 and 13, 2 pencil and wash details of the same view, either by Bridge or Williams..