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Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

By: Erskine & Whitmore (Firm); Coxhead & Le Sueur (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-151

Description: Views of New Zealand collected by Invercargill firm Erskine & Whitmore. Scenes taken by various photographers including Hart, Campbell & Co., and Coxhead & Le Sueur. Several views show Queenstown under floods in 1878; others of the Queenstown-Lakes Region, Waitati, Gore and Dunedin in the South Island. In the North Island, one shows a large picnic party travelling in three horse-drawn coaches, stopped at Ngauranga; many show a range of steam locomotives including J Class, K Class, F43, E22, H Class and A Class, in the Upper Hutt area, the Wairarapa, and on the Rimutaka line. Several at the end of the album show the effects of a major slip which blocked the mouth of the Summit Tunnel at the top of the Rimutaka Incline. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Erkine & Whitmore Inscriptions: Album page - `A choice collection of New Zealand views carefully selected from the best artists'. Erskine & Whitmore, Invercargill Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, 24.5 x 35.0 cm Provenance: Part of Alexander H Turnbull's collection

Date: 1840

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

Reference: A-146-002

Description: Shows a lake scene (Te Whanga Lagoon) with two ducks in the water and two shags on a branch in the foreground, a canoe on the lake in right distance. Across the lake is a distinctive volcanic cone hill with smaller peaks further in the distance. Tree ferns, a cabbage tree and other trees are nearby, with flax flowering on the strip of land in the foreground The volcanic peak shown may be Te Ranga, close to the South-west corner of Te Whanga Lagoon Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Chas Heaphy Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing 132 x 355 mm on sheet 221 x 368 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company collection. Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, from Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

Date: 1866

By: Tempsky, Gustavus Ferdinand von, 1828-1868; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-198-008

Description: Shows Von Tempsky, smoking a pipe and seated by the cartwheel in the foreground, with Dr I. E. Featherston standing behind him. Sergeant Birchfield may be the standing soldier on the left, guarding the group. Seated are Maori guide Te Mahuki and his wife Takeroa (Lucy). There is a horse standing by the cart on the right. There is a billy boiling on a campfire in the centre of the group of figures. The group is in the foreground looking out over an encampment at the right in mid-distance, with troops moving on lower further hills, and in the distance a hilltop fort or pa, with a flag flying. There is a cabbage tree in the left foreground. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 254 x 352 mm Provenance: Possibly collection of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull.

Date: 1839

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Wakefield, Edward Jerningham, 1820-1879; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-145-007

Description: Shows a Maori canoe with carved prow, containing 2 figures, one Maori, one European, and a dog, alongside a raft or mokihi being paddled by a young Maori man in the foreground. Both craft negotiate river rapids. In right foreground a fallen tree trunk is a perch for a few birds, and in the background cabbage trees stand in front of denser bush. The scene is thought to be close to modern Canvastown The rapids, or low waterfall on the Pelorus River, were close to modern Canvastown Listed by the New Zealand Company as received in London by the Company [before 1842], item no. 5 E J Wakefield wrote about travelling with his uncle William Wakefield up the Pelorus River between 6 and 16 September 1839 and mentioned that the paddler on the mokihi or raft was a 12-year-old boy. perched in the centre of a raft made of two bundles of raupo tied with flax. (Adventure in New Zealand, 1845, page 63). Heaphy remained with the Tory, in Tory Channel Other Titles - Wakefield, Edward Jerningham Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - No. 5; Verso - top centre - No. 1 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 255 x 364 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, with other New Zealand Company material, Francis Edwards, London, 1914.

Date: 1844

By: Drake, James Charles, 1821-1865?; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-108-009

Description: View into the valley of the Pelorus River, with flaxes growing on rocks on the left, bush-clad islands with the occasional cabbage tree below, amongst the meanderings of the river. One of series of 8 drawings; see A108/007, "View of the Moketap ..." for information Other Titles - bearing Inscriptions: At head of drawing: "No. 3" (apparently numbered out of sequence) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink 174 x 259 mm

Date: 1841

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-011-009

Description: A view from the south bank of the Whanganui River with the foreground details outlined in ink. There is a cabbage tree to the left, a tree fern to the right. Across the river is bush-clad undulating land with Mount Ruapehu in the distance. No houses are visible New Zealand company drawing, no. 6, Portfolio D. Information inscribed in ink lower left, probably before the New Zealand Company had had a stamp made. Probably 'Sketch near Wanganui' received by the New Zealand Company in London on 23 March 1842, listed by the Company as item number 48 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date [printed], signature. Also bottom left, in ink: No.6 Portfolio D Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and brown ink drawing 152 x 286 mm

Date: 1841 - 1842

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

Reference: C-025-004

Description: Shows view from high vantage point, looking over flat plain towards present-day Motueka, and out to Tasman Bay. Kaiteriteri is on the left, and D'Urville Island in the right distance with French Pass visible as a gap between the island and the mainland. New Zealand Company drawing no. 70. This is the original drawing for the lithograph 'The level country at the south end looking north of Blind Bay' published in E. J. Wakefield's 'Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand' in 1845. The lithographer has added cows to the foreground and changed the predominant tree ferns and cabbage tree seen in this view. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [New Zealand Company stamp]: 23 Mar 1842; Recto - No. 70 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing 227 x 533 mm (trimmed) Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull.