Cressy (Ship)

Date: 1892 - 1852

By: Wilkin, James Clunie, 1843-1907; Barker, Alfred Charles (Dr), 1819-1873; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Lyttelton Times Company Ltd; Canterbury times (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: B-055-013

Description: Two reproductions of earlier images of pioneer Canterbury. The upper view, after Alfred Charles Barker, shows the Avon River near the the Worcester St bridge, looking towards the Port Hills, with a cluster of houses in the middle distance across the river. The lower view, after William Fox, is of passengers by the Cressy landing, looking down into Lyttelton Harbour with the first four ships in port, immigration barracks and other houses, and passengers walking up the hill to cross the Bridle Track to Christchurch Supplement to: Canterbury times, 14 Jan., 1892. Other Titles - Alfred Charles Barker; William Fox Extended Title - Christchurch ; J.C. Wilkin for Lyttelton Times Co., 1892. From sketch by A.C. Barker after his own photo., c.f. A-032-021, A-163-017 and C-032-012; and from engraving by T. Allom after drawing by Fox, showing Sumner Road, immigration barracks, J.R. Godley's house, and the ships. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, monochrome, 463 x 321 mm

Date: 1851

By: Townsend, Mary, 1822-1869; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-039

Description: ATL has uncoloured copies of the lithograph on which this reproduction is based Extended Title - Published in: Four Illustrative views of the Canterbury settlement ... 1851 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 230 x 380 mm on sheet 430 x 556 mm

Date: 1850 - 1974 - 1851

By: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-037

Description: View looking down onto Lyttelton Harbour in 1850, with a family in the foreground shaking hands with the builder of a house, and other new immigrants making their way up the Lyttelton side of the Bridle Path. Washing on a line to the right, tents and houses, with Mr Godley's house and emigration barracks noted, along with the Sumner Road. The first four immigrant ships to Canterbury are also shown in the harbour, the Charlotte Jane on the left, the Randolph, the Cressy (with sails unfurled) and the Sir George Seymour. Number 6 of an edition of 1000 Originally published in Four illustrative views of the Canterbury settlement. London, 1851, plate 2. Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Australia Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 227 x 380 mm on sheet 430 x 556 mm

Date: 1851

By: Townsend, Mary, 1822-1869; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-039-a

Description: A view of Lyttelton from the Port Hills Originally published in Four illustrative views of the Canterbury settlement ... 1851 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 230 x 380 mm on sheet 430 x 556 mm

Date: 1900 - 1850

By: Wilkin, James Clunie, 1843-1907; Canterbury times (Christchurch, N.Z.); Lyttelton times (Newspaper)

Reference: B-033-028

Description: A view from the water looking across towards Lyttelton with Canterbury's first four ships (Charlotte Jane, Randolph, Cressy and Seymour) with a background of a few houses at Lyttelton on the lower slopes of the Port Hills Supplement to: "Canterbury Times" Jubilee number, December 16th, 1900. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 241 x 392 mm (image) on sheet 304 x 453 mm

Date: 1850 - 1982

By: Raworth, William Henry, 1821-1904; Avon Fine Prints; Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: C-085-129

Description: Shows Immigration Barracks, Godley's house, first four ships Same as C-085-129-a Probably a copy of a lithograph by William Fox Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, col, 366 x 551 mm (image), 571 x 719 mm (sheet) + 1 information sheet (330 mm)

Date: 1850 - 1974 - 1851

By: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-037-a

Description: View looking down onto Lyttelton Harbour in 1850, with a family in the foreground shaking hands with the builder of a house, and other new immigrants making their way up the Lyttelton side of the Bridle Path. Washing on a line to the right, tents and houses, with Mr Godley's house and emigration barracks noted, along with the Sumner Road. The first four immigrant ships to Canterbury are also shown in the harbour, the Charlotte Jane on the left, the Randolph, the Cressy (with sails unfurled) and the Sir George Seymour. Number 7 of an edition of 1000 Originally published in Four illustrative views of the Canterbury settlement. London, 1851, plate 2. Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Australia Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 227 x 380 mm on sheet 430 x 556 mm

Date: 1961

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to history, jubilees, centennials, anniversary celebrations in New Zealand]

By: Pegasus Press

Reference: Eph-A-HISTORY-1961-01

Description: Shows an engraving of each of the First Four Ships to reach Lyttelton in December 1850: the Randolph, the Cressy, Sir George Seymour and the Charlotte Jane. The writer of the text is likely to have been Denis Glover. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, coloured, on sheet 188 x 227 mm.

Date: 1851 - 1882 - 1889

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd; Townsend, Mary, 1822-1869

Reference: A-356-001

Description: The first (top) image shows a view from the water of the harbour, with (from left) the ship "Cressy" arriving, the bridle Road to the Plain, the wharves and pier of Lyttelton, the Immigration Barracks, Mr Godley's house, and the Sumner Road to Lyttelton. The lower image shows a view from the land towards the harbour, with (from left) the Sumner Road to Lyttelton, Mr Godley's House and the Immigration Barracks, the East Shore of Victoria Harbour, the "Charlotte Jane", "Randolph", "Cressy", and "Sir George Seymour". Other Titles - Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, Ltd Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithographs, both 110 x 196 mm, on sheet 300 x 230 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in 2002.

Date: 1850 - 1982

By: Raworth, William Henry, 1821-1904; Avon Fine Prints; Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: C-085-129-a

Description: Shows Immigration Barracks, Godley's house, first four ships Same as C-085-129 Probably a copy of a lithograph by William Fox Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, col, 366 x 551 mm (image), 571 x 719 mm (sheet) + 1 information sheet (330 mm)

Date: 1819-1845

From: United Kingdom. Admiralty : Records relating to the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-05-3192

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1848-1867

From: Canterbury Association : Miscellaneous records

Reference: Micro-MS-0910-05

Description: Contains report from Alfred Will to Colonel Wakefield regarding Port Cooper, (1848); Charter of the Canterbury Association, (13 November 1849); Sailing dates of the first four ships, (1850); Deed of Canterbury public reserves, (1851); Ecclesiastical and educational reserves, (1851); Canterbury reserves, (1852); Proclamation of provinces, (1853); Governor Grey's land regulations, (1853); Proclamation of procedures, (1853); Ward deed of conveyance, (1855); Proclamation of West Coast goldfield, (1865); Schedule of NZ Exhibition, (1865); Grey River Coal Co Ltd lease, (1867); Land claim No 37 by John Deans, (January 1852) and correspondence relating to the selection of land. Documents relating to the following vessels: Charlotte Jane, Randolph, Sir George Seymour, Cressy, Castle Eden, Isabella Hercus, Travancore, Duke of Bronte. Tender for hire, shipping lists, receipts of stores, passenger lists & correspondence. Also names and adresses of declared & proposing colonists Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive.

Date: 1850 - 1851

From: Fox, William 1812-1893 :Four illustrative views of the Canterbury settlement with descriptions; I. Port Lyttelton. II. Landing of the passengers from the "Cressy". III. Part of the great plain. IV. The Rivers Courtenay and Hinds. / From drawings made on the spot, by Miss Mary Townsend and William Fox Esq. London, John W Parker & Son ... 1851

By: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: PUBL-0001-2

Description: View looking down onto Lyttelton Harbour in September 1850, with a family in the foreground shaking hands with the builder of a house, and other new immigrants making their way up the Lyttelton side of the Bridle Path. Washing on a line to the right, tents and houses, with Mr Godley's house and emigration barracks marked, along with Sumner Road to Lyttelton. The first four immigrant ships to Canterbury are also shown in the harbour, the Charlotte Jane on the left, the Randolph, the Cressy (with sails unfurled) and the Sir George Seymour. Small boats are making their way with passengers from the Cressy to the wharf. The accompanying descriptive text reads: This sketch represents Port Lyttelton from a different and much nearer point of view, showing more distinctly the nature of the buildings which had been erected before the arrival of any colonists, and of the sort of places which the first passengers put up for temporary shelter immediately after their arrival. In this View, the shore of Victoria Harbour, opposite to Port Lyttelton, is represented; and the way of exit from the harbour is indicated. The passengers from the Cressy landed eleven days after those by the Charlotte Jane, Sir George Seymour and Randolph; the three last-named ships having sailed from England on the same day and entered Victoria Harbour on the same day, after a prosperous voyage of ninety-seven days. They have at the present time (July, 1851) been succeeded by thirteen large ships, making seventeen in all since last September. Probably based on an ink drawing by William Fox, located at A-195-015. A watercolour version is also held by the Hocken Library. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted etching, black and white, 166 x 276 mm

Date: 1850 - 1851

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867; Burnand, William Henry, active 1843-1850s

Reference: A-195-015

Description: View of Lyttelton Habour from the Bridle Path, on the hills above the town. The first four ships are in port, with passengers leaving the Cressy via a wharf and walking up into the town. Several large buildings are near the water's edge, including immigration barracks, John Robert Godley's house and the offices of the Lyttelton Times newspaper just below the hill on the left. The Sumner Road is formed. Other small houses and tents are dotted around. Immigrants are carrying baggage and some have wheeled carts. A family is greeting a man building his house in the left foreground and a clothes line is in the right foreground. A building on the far right is marked in pencil "C Store H" [?]. On the verso is a schematic map of the location of Christchurch, showing the River Courtney (Waimakariri), Papanui Bush, the Avon River and Riccarton with William and John Deans' property, notes about land purchases and a list of names of land-owning Canterbury settlers. Possibly Fox's original drawing for the etching entitled "Port Lyttelton. Passengers by the Cressy landing" published in 'Four Illustrative Views of the Canterbury Settlement" in 1851. However the style suggests that it may be a copy of the etching by H. J. Cridland - cf A-195-016, especially the foreshortening of perspective and the manner of drawing people. A watercolour in the Hocken Library by Fox entitled "Port Lyttelton. Immigrants luggage disembarking, Jan 1851" is also similar. Other Titles - Lyttelton Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [title in ink]; Recto - bottom left - Office of the Lyttleton Times [in pencil]; Verso - [notes and a map in pencil, ink and watercolour] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on blue laid paper 204 x 322 mm Provenance: Originally tipped in to Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull's bound copy of the New Zealand Journal. Before being acquired by Turnbull, the volumes had belonged to W H Burnand.

Date: 1850 - 1851

From: Fox, William 1812-1893 :Four illustrative views of the Canterbury settlement with descriptions; I. Port Lyttelton. II. Landing of the passengers from the "Cressy". III. Part of the great plain. IV. The Rivers Courtenay and Hinds. / From drawings made on the spot, by Miss Mary Townsend and William Fox Esq. London, John W Parker & Son ... 1851

By: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Townsend, Mary, 1822-1869

Reference: PUBL-0001-1

Description: View looking across the harbour from a position on the water, inwards and across towards the Lyttelton waterfront. There are several rowboats in the foreground, and the "Cressy" stands at anchor at the left. Labelled features from left to right are: The ship "Cressy" arriving, Bridle Road to the plain, wharfs and pier, Emigration barracks and Mr Godley's house, Sumner Road to Lyttelton. The accompanying descriptive text reads: This view shows the site of the town of Port Lyttelton, with the hills which separate it from the great plain; the Sumner Road, leading by way of Sumner to Lyttelton, the capital of the Settlement; and the four ships of the first expedition, the last of which, the "Cressy", has just cast anchor. Mr Godley's house, part of the Emigrants' Barracks, the wharves and jetty, and some storehouses and huts. are indistinctly visible. A bridle-path over the hills, the only available road to the Plain when the first colonists landed, may be discerned. Immediately behind Mr Godley's house and the barracks, is a fifty acre section of land, presented to the College by the widow of the late Mr Somes, M.P. for Dartmouth, the whole of which is sure to become town land, and highly valuable. This property is given for a scholarship to be named after the founder. At the time represented, the Sumner Road was still unfinished at some places of difficult engineering; and the first settlers, having but just arrived, had erected no permanent residences. At the time of the latest advices (March last), the passengers by the first four ships had selected their rural lands, and the greater part of them had removed from the Port to settle at and near Lyttelton in the Plain. The highest point of land indicated in this view, is Mount Pleasant, 1670 feet above the sea. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted etching, black and white, 162 x 270 mm

Date: 1850

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0033-1850-199

Description: On the dock at Gravesend, Kent, England, with the Charlotte Jane, Sir George Seymour, Randolph and Cressy visible in the background. Several large tents close to the water and, in the foreground, crowds of Canterbury settlers, many already in lengthy queues heading towards the relevant ship. A group is playing 'Ring-a-ring-a-roses' in the foreground. Reproduced in Louis Ward's "Early Wellington" as "Emigrants' departure from Gravesend, London" Other Titles - Emigrants' departure from Gravesend London Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 184 x 215 mm