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Date: 1868

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-061

Description: A bend in the Ruamahanga River, with flax bushes at the river's edge, beech trees to the right, and forest to the left. Smoke rising from a farmhouse amongst bush in the distance, and the Tararua Range in the background. The original for a chromolithograph 'Opaki Plain, 1875' reproduced in Barraud's 'New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive' (London, 1877). opp. p. 4. The chromolithograph has the addition of two Maori in a canoe on the river and cows on the plain in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 260 x 380 mm

Date: 1852 - 1863

From: [Duppa, George 1817-1888] :[Sketchbook ca 1852-1860]

Reference: E-080-q-3-003

Description: An adult bull viewed in profile and from the front. Below, on the right, is a pair of ducks facing one another, by still water, with flax bushes alongside, and hills behind, possibly at the artist's St Leonard's Station, Amuri. The ducks may be Paradise ducks (one has a white head). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 183 x 271 mm

Date: 1863 - 1864

From: Artist unknown :Watercolours of New Zealand during the Waikato War of 1863 and on the voyage back to England, 1864.

Reference: A-161-040

Description: Shows tall trees and a flax bush in the foreground, with garden beds and lawns, a few houses on a hill to the left and sailing ships in the harbour in the background. A-161-032/041 and B-064-022 purchased together. All appear to be by the same hand. Inscriptions: Verso - [title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 231 X 175 mm

Date: 1868

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-o-094

Description: Views of New Zealand chiefly taken by Daniel Mundy circa 1868, with some taken by Charles S Spencer. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Decorated tan coloured cover "Scraps", 25.5 x 33 cm Provenance: Alexander Turnbull Library donation slip on front page reads: "Scrapbook of old photos collected by Mr Mundy about 1868."

Date: [1860s-1880s?]

Reference: PA1-q-166

Description: Scrap book of miscellaneous photographs, many of which have no captions and have not been identified. At the front of the album is an undated newspaper cutting showing the original building used for the Colonial Museum in 1865, which `has been revealed by the pulling down of the Dominion Museum, at the back of Parliament House. For many years this building has been used for a variety of purposes, museum exhibits being housed in adjacent quarters, but it is about to be demolished'. The first group show interior scenes of the Canterbury Museum, with exhibits of bird skeletons, and mounted birds. Other scenes show mounted animals, possibly not in Canterbury. Scenery includes views of the Franz Josef Glacier; and a number which are identified showing the gold-mining area around Ross and Donoghues, the Totara River and Mikonui River. One page has six photographs of mountainous regions in Switzerland; several show the area near the Wellington caves in Queensland, Australia; and two views show the breaking of the Cook Strait Cable. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, maroon spine and corners, entitled `Photographic scrap book'; 30 x 24 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available. Possibly part of a larger collection.

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Mitchell, Eitenton, -1881; Sisarich, Warren, active 1980s-1990s

Reference: A-049-038

Description: Shows the harbour from above Lyttelton, with Godley Heads beyond, ships, yacht and steamship, prior to construction of mole in 1863. Title from pencil inscription on verso of backing board. Forms pair with watercolour by same artist: "Looking towards Mt Herbert from Godley Heads, Lyttelton Harbour". (see A-049-037). Other Titles - Lyttelton. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - E. MITCHELL (in watercolour).; Backing board verso - Lyttleton Harbour, Christchurch Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, Chinese white and gum arabic on paper, 167 x 249 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Warren Sisarich, Waikanae, in 1991.

Date: 1865

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Otago Harbour. ca 1865]

Reference: E-016-2-011

Description: Looking down on Otago Harbour with several ships in port. Flax in flower in the foreground Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil on the following page Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 86 x 152 mm (page size)

Date: 1868 - 1870

Reference: A-036-024

Description: Flat-topped mountains in the background, bush and swampy ground with flax near a river in the foreground. Probably the work of a goldminer Grahamstown was the earlier name for Thames Other Titles - Grahamstown Inscriptions: Verso - title in ink; also recto, bottom left, artist's monogram in red watercolour (indecipherable, but the last initial is a P) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 162 x 257 mm

Date: 1855 - 1863

From: [Duppa, George 1817-1888] :[Sketchbook ca 1852-1860]

Reference: E-080-q-3-005

Description: Four cows in the foreground, with flax bushes in flower to the left. Behind them, to the right are two substantial houses, at right-angles to one another. There is a range of high hills in the background The drawing is undated but is more likely to show Duppa's Amuri run in the 1860s than his Waimea run in the 1840s. The inside back cover of the sketchbook includes the name and English address of Duppa's nephew, Bryan, who visited Amuri in 1863 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 185 x 270 mm

Date: 1864

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :South Island sketchbook 1864

Reference: E-174-042

Description: A road with telegraph poles on the right, flax bushes and Lake Waihola to the left. Mount Maungatua is in the distance on the far left, its top covered with cloud Acquired with E171: Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbook, signed J C Crawford Extended Title - From his South Island sketchbook, 1864. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawing 128 x 173 mm. Provenance: Estate of Russell Smith, Masterton.

Date: 1867-1868

From: Cooke, I V :Photographs of New Zealand and Australia

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-045

Description: Photographs taken in 1867 and 1868 by Daniel Louis Mundy. Collection comprises: moa skeletons on display in the Canterbury Museum, Maori man sitting in front of a flax plant in the Hokianga, a black pine forest in Westland, miners' whares at Tararu creek in the Thames goldfield, Punch Bowl Falls, Otira Gorge, fern trees at Governor's Bay, waterfall at Waihi at the head of lake Taupo, tramway at Moanataiari in the Thames goldfield, bush at German Bay (Akaroa), Waitohi creek in the Thames goldfield, Onoke (Hokianga), kauri forest at Wairere Stream (Hokianga), Wild Missouri and Russell's batteries at Tararu Creek, waterfalls at Banks Peninsula and Otira Gorge. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album bound in green morrocco, with gold tooling, 41.2 x 30.2 cm

Date: 1845 - 1866 - 1990

By: Meryon, Charles, 1821-1868; New Zealand 1990 Official Project; Collins, Roger David John, 1938-

Reference: B-123-041

Description: Poster for exhibition "The Images of Charles Meryon", July 28th - September 16th 1990, at the Museum, Akaroa, featuring reproduction of Meryon's drawing above lettering. ATL Drawings and Prints has version of this etching at B-014-008. ATL has catalogue of this exhibition at: Art Rm Box 769.944 MER IMA 1990. Other Titles - Cottage of the old soldier settler Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Art reproduction, black and white photolithograph, 240 x 225 mm, on sheet 425 x 397 mm. Provenance: Donated by Roger Collins of Dunedin, in 1990.

Date: 1865

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Otago Harbour. ca 1865]

Reference: E-016-2-013

Description: Looking down on Otago Harbour from a high standpoint, east towards the horizon, across St Kilda. Flax is noted on a flank of a hill on the right Primrose Hill was the name of a hill in the suburb of Roslyn, Dunedin in the 1860s and 1870s. It appears to be no longer in use. Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil on the following page Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 86 x 152 mm (page size)

Date: 1869 - 1959

From: [Various artists] :I C I calendar, [Wellington] 1959.

By: Wyvill, Edward Christopher (Rev), -1889; ICI New Zealand

Reference: C-086-1959-02-6

Description: View looking up the Flaxbourne River towards hills, with the station buildings in the middle distance and a barn to the right. There is a flax bush in the left foreground Colour reproduction made of the Library's watercolour at B-035-004 for the I.C.I. 1959 calendar Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 236 x 336 mm

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Mitchell, Eitenton, -1881; Sisarich, Warren, active 1980s-1990s

Reference: A-049-037

Description: Shows yacht and part of Godley Head in foreground, Mt Herbert in the distance. Headland in foreground has flax growing on it. Title from inscription on verso of backing board. Forms pair with watercolour by same artist: "Lyttleton [sic] Harbour, Christchurch [1860s]. (see A-049-038). Other Titles - Lyttelton. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - E. MITCHELL (in watercolour); Backing board verso - Looking towards Mt Herbert from Godley Heads, Lyttleton Harbour. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, Chinese white and gum arabic, on paper 166 x 248 mm (sight). Provenance: Purchased from Warren Sisarich, Waikanae, in 1991.

Date: 1867 - 1870

By: Burgoyne, William Henry Daymond, -1871; Brooke-Taylor, Arthur Howard, 1900-1975

Reference: A-176-025

Description: A rough sketch from the lake shore, with a flax bush in the foreground, looking across part of the lake to bluffs on the opposite shore. A hill in the distance to the right is identified as te Hararue Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 155 x 290 mm

Date: [Between 1863 and 1872]

From: Holder, Miss: Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-f-030

Description: Album of undated photographs taken by Daniel Louis Mundy, owned by `Miss Holder' (her name printed facing page 1) Scenes are all of the North Island, in particular Bay of Islands, Thames, Rotorua, Taupo, Waikato and Napier. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black leather-bound album entitled `New Zealand views'; 30.5 x 42.0 cm

Date: 1860

From: Artist unknown :[Seven drawings featuring various colonial subjects. ca 1860]

By: Urquhart, G, active 1860; Hodgkinson & Company

Reference: A-457-008-4

Description: Two sketches shown on the recto: on the left, a study of plants including a young Norfolk pine and a flax plant; on the right, a house with a path leading up to it, with landscaped gardens. Two figures that would appear to be a boy and a girl, walk up the path On the verso are three other pencil drawings of non-New Zealand scenes, probably in England or Europe 'Ghur' or Ghar is the Hindi word for a house Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Karaka Ghur / 1860 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on laid, watermarked paper, 198 x 325 mm

Date: 1860

From: Artist unknown :[Seven drawings featuring various colonial subjects. ca 1860]

By: Urquhart, G, active 1860

Reference: A-457-008-5

Description: A large, two-storey house overlooking what is probably Karaka Bay in Auckland. An expansive, flat lawn with a path leading to the house can be seen, and the house is surrounded by bush, mature pine, cabbage trees and flax bushes Possibly after Charles James Urquhart, 1834-1909, who lived in Taranaki and drew his house there in the 1860s (A-159-009, [My wharrie, Taranaki. ca 1860]. Urquhart was in the 65th Regiment, as was Major Murray, whose house is noted by this artist in A-457-008-2 'Ghur' or ghar is the Hindi word for a house. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Te Karaka Ghur[?] / 1860 / Auckland / G. Urquhart Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, Chinese white and watercolour on laid, watermarked paper, 198 x 325 mm

Date: 1868

From: Artist and photographers unknown :[Watercolours of the Bay of Plenty and thermal regions, Atlantic and Indian Ocean islands, and Ireland; photographs of Dover, a Belgian monument, Ireland and New Zealand bush, 1866-1868]

Reference: A-443-015-1

Description: Shows a view of the monument commemorating 26 men of the 43rd Regiment who were killed in action or died of wounds received at Pukehinahina (Gate Pa) and Te Ranga in mid-1864. The monument itself is in the foreground on the right, with the white pickets of the cemetery showing in front of it. A number of trees, including cabbage trees and flax bushes, stand prominently to its left. From the headland Mount Maunganui can be seen in the background. Although not the same scene, this might usefully be compared to Henry Ambrose Scrivener's Burial ground at Tauranga New Zealand of those killed at the Gate Pah... 1864 (B-064-024) and Andrew Thomas H. Carbery's Cemetery at Te Papa, Tauranga (E-248-q-096), which show similar views prior to the monument's erection. Other Titles - Gate Pa Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Monument of the 43rd killed at the Gate Pah Tauranga [in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 134 x 245 mm