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Date: 1841 - 1842

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Saunders, Trelawny, active 1840-1855; C Hullmandel (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-026-003

Description: View from the first ridge above the beach, below Britannia Heights. Shows Haulashore Island, looking towards Moutere Hills, and Tasman Ranges. House at left is a prefabricated barracks. Ships include Will Watch, Whitby and Arrow. Library holds 7 copies of this print in various states, C-026-003-a to g. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, two-tone 368 x 522 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull? Turnbull ordered a print 'View of Nelson Harbour' [sic] from Angus and Robertson, Sydney, in a letter of 20 April 1896. He paid 42 shillings for the print.

Date: 1841

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

Reference: C-025-015

Description: View from the first ridge above the beach showing a prefabricated barracks to the left and the tents erected to house the first settlers to Nelson, a well, a flag, and several carts. The view looks from the land towards the Boulder Bank and Haulashore Island, and the Arrow or Fifeshire rock across Tasman Bay to the distant snow-capped Moutere Hills and Tasman Range. The first three immigrant ships, The Will Watch, the Whitby and the Arrow are shown in the harbour with flags flying. There are clumps of trees at the water's edge, but the land is otherwise grassed or with flax and bracken. Original watercolour for the related lithograph "View of Nelson Haven in Tasman's Gulf, New Zealand, including a part of the site of the Town of Nelson" published in 1842. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. Exhibited: Treasures in Trust. Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth 1997, Robert McDougall Art Gallery Christchurch, 1997, Southland Museum and Art Gallery, 1997, total exposure 27 weeks. Inscriptions: Recto - Signature and title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 386 x 492 mm on sheet 465 x 587 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull with other material from the disbanded New Zealand Company in 1915 in London.

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: 1887

By: Payton, Edward William, 1859-1944; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-045-002

Description: Shows a bush camp in a clearing with three pitched tents and two Maori women, possibly washing plates, at a stream in the foreground. Tree stumps and tree ferns surround the camp. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Nihotopu; Recto - bottom right - E. W. P. 87 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching 100 x 130 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull purchased 1890 (with other Payton etchings), as the first works of art to be added to Turnbull's New Zealand and Pacific Collection

Date: 1848

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-012-001

Description: Shows "Wickliffe Wharf, Residence of Mr Cuttan, The Manse, Back of Captn Cargill's residence, Mr Jeffrey's tent, Resident Agent's Office, Residence of Mr Kettle, Principal surveyor's office, Commercial Inn, Tent, Emigrant's House, Street Lane, Mr Anderson's stores, Emigrant's house Inscriptions: top left - New Zealand Company stamp date "21 Dec 1848"; Verso - In pencil: "no. 283" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and Chinese white image 211 x 580 mm on sheet 267 x 637 mm Provenance: Purchased by A H Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915 with other New Zealand Company material