Works of art

Date: 1970 - 1867 - 1975

From: [Various artists] :[Postcards depicting works of art]. National Art Gallery. Wellington, N.Z. [1970s]

By: Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898

Reference: E-278-q-038-A

Description: Postcard depicting Richmond's watercolour of a waterfall at Wairoa, Hawke's Bay. Painted in 1867. Gift of E A Atkinson in 1935 on behalf of artist's daughter D K Richmond Other Titles - Te Reinga, falls of the Wairoa, Hawke's Bay Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photo-lithograph, 150 x 105 mm

Date: 26 October 1963

From: Mallitte, Howard Leon, 1910-1979 :[Antarctic material relating to 1963 expedition of HMNZS Endeavour to Scott Base and Hallett Station] 1963

Reference: B-117-048

Description: Shows sketches of the heads of three men. Douglas Suter is examining a tape. Other Titles - Doug Souter Other Titles - 28 October 1963 Other Titles - New Zealand Inscriptions: Recto - centre left - Cape Hallett - 26 Oct/63, Doug Souter and his relief Neville Green maitenace on the C4 Iono Sonde Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pastel 332 x 239 mm. Provenance: Donated by NZ Tourist and Publicity Department, 30 March 1976. Processing information: Record updated 5 February 2024 to correct the name of Douglas Suter resulting from the misspelling of the surname within the image by the artist.

Date: 1883 - 1970 - 1975

From: [Various artists] :[Postcards depicting works of art]. National Art Gallery. Wellington, N.Z. [1970s]

By: Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917

Reference: E-278-q-049

Description: Postcard NAG 4 - Photograph of Rodin's bronze statue `Eve', cast in 1883 Purchased by the National Art Gallery in 1959 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithograph, 152 x 102 mm

Date: 1965

By: Fowler, Edward Michael Coulson (Sir), 1929-2022

Reference: E-278-q-056

Description: View of the boat sheds and yacht harbour at Oriental Bay, Wellington. Freyberg Pool can be seen in the distance, and St Gerard's Monastery on the hill above. On recto: `This sketch of mine is of the yacht harbour and St gerards. help me and the whole Citizens Team make this city an even more beautiful and exciting place in which to live. Michael Fowler, Citizens Mayoral Candidate'. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 108 x 155 mm

Date: 1917

From: [Artist unknown] :[Versions of Sketches made at Anzac]. - [1917?].

By: Moore-Jones, Horace Millichamp, 1868-1922

Reference: A-176-039

Description: View with 12 numbered landmarks and identified in pencil beneath the ink drawing. In the foreground is Reserve Gully Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 110 x 300 mm on sheet 130 x 345 mm

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Artist unknown :[Wellington scenes. 1890s].

Reference: E-278-q-003-09

Description: View of the Athenaeum, at the foot of Plimmer's Steps, Lambton Quay looking south-east. Shows the second Wellington Athenaeum, built 1877, with a tower. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photoengraving 122 x 74 mm

Date: 1970 - 1933 - 1975

From: [Various artists] :[Postcards depicting works of art]. National Art Gallery. Wellington, N.Z. [1970s]

By: Wheeler, Charles Thomas (Sir), 1892-1974

Reference: E-278-q-029

Description: Postcard depicting Wheeler's carving in Portland stone entitled `Mother and child', ca 1933. Purchased by National Art Gallery in 1945 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photo-lithograph, 150 x 105 mm

Date: 1970 - 1975

From: [Various artists] :[Postcards depicting works of art]. National Art Gallery. Wellington, N.Z. [1970s]

By: Nolan, Sidney, 1917-1992

Reference: E-278-q-036

Description: Postcard depicting Nolan's acrylic on hardboard entitled `Greek coast'. Purchased by National Art Gallery in 1961 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photo-lithograph, 150 x 105 mm

Date: 1930 - 1949

By: Whydale, Ernest Herbert, 1886-1952

Reference: E-278-q-106

Description: Chrismas card sent by A & A G Rough, 48 Clyde Street, Wellington. On front a reproduction of a Whydale painting, a rural scene showing two horses hauling a wagon loaded with hay. One man is on the wagon stacking the hay while another is gathering it up to place on the wagon. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph 58 x 120 mm on folded card

Date: 1970 - 1975

By: National Art Gallery (N.Z.)

Reference: E-278-q-046/051

Description: Postcards depicting paintings and sculpture from the National Art Gallery collection. Printed by KOWI Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithographs, 150 x 105 mm

Date: 1970 - 1909 - 1975

From: [Various artists] :[Postcards depicting works of art]. National Art Gallery. Wellington, N.Z. [1970s]

By: Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947

Reference: E-278-q-040

Description: Postcard depicting Goldie's oil painting of a elderly Maori chieftainess of Ngati Raukawa shown wearing a tag cloak and hei tiki. Gift from NZ Academy of Fine Arts in 1936 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photo-lithograph, 150 x 105 mm

Date: 1956

By: Packe, William, 1840?-1882; New Zealand. High Commission (Great Britain)

Reference: E-278-q-119

Description: Reproduction of a watercolour by Packe showing two thatched sod huts, washing strung on a line in the foreground and a sheep's carcass hanging on the left. Foothills and snow-clad Southern Alps beyond. Samuel Butler took up his station at Mesopotamia in 1860, leaving it in 1864, after doubling his money. William Packe, with his brother George, took up the neighbouring station Raincliff in 1868. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 128 x 178 mm on folded card

By: Crane, Walter, 1845-1915

Reference: E-278-q-001

Description: Cartoon showing the advantages socialism offers the worker as opposed to the evils of capitalism. Depicts an angel heralding Socialism and a devil symbolising Capitalism, devouring a prostrate labourer who is lying on a pile of rocks, a pick and shovel by his side. No 1 Published for Newcastle Socialist Society Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 102 x 76 mm

Date: 1917

From: [Artist unknown] :[Versions of Sketches made at Anzac]. - [1917?].

By: Moore-Jones, Horace Millichamp, 1868-1922

Reference: A-176-034

Description: Distant view of Anzac Cove with soldiers standing in the foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 90 x 283 mm on sheet 115 x 205 mm

Date: 1960 - 1975

By: Johnstone, James Alexander, 1893?-1977

Reference: E-278-q-104-A

Description: View of Lake Wanaka at sunset by artist J A Johnstone reproduced on a Christmas card 'Art in NZ' Post Card Series No 15 Identical image at E-010-f-015 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph 100 x 125 mm on folded card

Date: 1970 - 1780 - 1975

From: [Various artists] :[Postcards depicting works of art]. National Art Gallery. Wellington, N.Z. [1970s]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: E-278-q-031

Description: Postcard depicting Webber's oil painting of Captain James Cook shown standing with a telescope in his left hand. Gifted to the New Zealand Government in 1960 Cook posed for this portrait shortly before leaving on his 3rd voyage. It was completed in 1780. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photo-lithograph, 150 x 105 mm

Date: 1920 - 1930

From: Wiseman, Hilda Alexandra 1894-1982 :A poem of love; Folks need a lot of loving / by Strickland Gillilian; designed and illustrated by Hilda Wiseman. [192-?].

By: Wiseman, Hilda Alexandra, 1894-1982

Reference: E-456-q-03

Description: Illuminated manuscript with decorated capital and inset bush and mountain scene. Characteristic of decorative art work produced between 1910-1930s. Extended Title - From: Gillilian, Strickland. A poem of love; folks need a lot of loving... designed and illustrated by Hilda Wiseman. Inscriptions: Unsigned and undated. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Album page, illustration in ink, watercolour and gilt, image 165 x 115 mm, on sheet 266 x 182 mm. Provenance: Purchased from John Quilter's Bookshop. Wellington, in 1991.

Date: 1970 - 1918 - 1975

From: [Various artists] :[Postcards depicting works of art]. National Art Gallery. Wellington, N.Z. [1970s]

By: Rice, Anne Estelle, 1879-1959

Reference: E-278-q-041

Description: Postcard depicting Rice's portrait of Katherine Mansfield painted in 1918 at Looe, Cornwall. Purchased By National Art Gallery in 1940 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photo-lithograph, 150 x 105 mm

Date: 1946 - 1955

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991; Sports post (Newspaper)

Reference: B-154-057/126

Description: Includes covers of the Evening post sports post, and the Sports post, for the following dates: 1946. 11 May, 15 June, 29 June, 6 July, 20 July, 27 July, 3 August, 31 August, 7 September, 28 September, 12 October, 26 October, 9 November, 23 November, 7 December 1947. 4 January, 18 January, 1 February, 15 February, 5 April, 26 April, 10 May, 24 May, 14 June, 23 August, 30 August, 6 September, 25 October 1948. 18 September, 25 September, 2 October, 9 October, 11 December, 23 December. 1949. 5 February, 5 March, 26 March, 2 April, 28 May, 16 July, 13 August, 10 September, 22 October, 26 November, 10 December 1950. 25 March, 1 April, 8 April, 15 April, 27 May, 10 June, 9 September, 23 September, 21 October, 25 November 1951. 9 June 1952. 19 April, 3 May, 7 June, 5 July, 26 July 1953. 25 July 1954. 1 May, 26 June, 4 December 1955. 12 March, 18 June, 9 July, 6 August, 3 September. Includes cartoons featuring women golfers, General Bernard Freyberg, women cricketers, sports press photographers, boxers, cyclists, rugby players, husband getting a garden trowel from his wife as a present, cricketer Ian Cromb playing golf, soaking one's tired feet, bowler, first swim of the season, opening of the lifesaving season (political cartoon about socialism and private enterprise); "Crossroads" (Labour's Peter Fraser and National's Sid Holland - re the 1946 general election), town versus country cricket match at Basin Reserve (original at B-154-054); "We beat Auckland" - caricature of J R Lamason the selector for the Wellington Cricket Association, punters at the horse races, Australian and USA runners; "The big chief" - Tom Lock, president of the NZ Bowling Council; photographic portrait of the Sports post cartoonist; Mother's Day - expectant father paces the hospital corridors and faints on being confronted by twins!; "No confidence" - a rear view of a golfer; "Our Alf" (probably wrestling referee Alf Jenkins); "Death is on the road" - a warning about the road toll; women hockey players - "the female of the species; Father's Day (Father upsets his son by playing with a toy train); jockey rides a horse in a handstand position ("I learned it at the circus!); "The cert" - rugby player carts his luggage to South Africa; Portraits of North Island and South Island rugby teams; "Doomsday" - rugby selection?; wife irons husband's bowling trousers; Go-Kart racing (original drawing at B-154-052); Father Christmas; members of the 1949 NZ Cricket team to tour Great Britain; a pole-vaulter about to land on a rake; schoolboys at the change in season between cricket and rugby; "Beginning of the grand uproar season" - politicians as opera performers (numbered key inside cover lists participants as James Roberts, Mr Mason, Mr Nordmeyer, Mr Nash, Mr Fraser, Mr Jones, Mr Parry, Mr Cullen, Mr McKeen, Mr McCombs, Mr Hackett, Mr McLagan, Mr Chapman, Miss Mabel Howard); cricket players and rugby players; burglar watches the rugby (see laser copy of original at A-317-063); "Sportsman's nightmare" (Rugby test in South Africa and cricket test in England both on at the same time); "The age of innocence" (original at C-132-889); Opening batsman; "The M.P. games trial" (original at C-132-877); "The Cabinet" (see key inside front cover); "An ivers 'un!" (Australian spin bowler Iverson); "Boy oh boy - the tail-end at last (see original at B-154-053); Camping - "Hoi - why can't you use the gate like everyone else?"; rugby charge with a player as a battering ram; Eric Tindill; Lion and All Blacks; Rugby injuries ("Two more from that friendly game at Kilbirnie, Sister"); Wrestlers; Cricketer needs his trousers from the Dry Cleaner's; Pigeons at a cricket match; Ladies' Hockey Club Dance (original at C-132-883); Warming up causes a fire; duck shooting with a cannon; wrestlers tied in knots; Ron Jarden; Yvette Williams; Mooloo, Waikato's pride (rugby mascot); "The winning streak" - Murray Halberg?; runner Landy; Cricket violence (cricket captain claims that the Australian team didn't do the same to their captain Hutton - see original at C-132-870); Cricketer Tyson bowling during England's tour of New Zealand - Tyson at his peak after helping defeat Australia); Soccer free kick; Indian hockey players use the Indian rope trick; little boy takes up hockey to his father's disappointment; Father does the dishes on Father's Day. Quantity: 70 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (newsclippings of cartoons). Physical Description: Photolithographs on front cover of newspaper 485 x 330 mm (folded) Provenance: Donated by Mrs Margaret Colvin in 2000.

Date: 1970 - 1975

From: [Various artists] :[Postcards depicting works of art]. National Art Gallery. Wellington, N.Z. [1970s]

By: Page, Evelyn Margaret, 1899-1988

Reference: E-278-q-037

Description: Postcard depicting Page's painting of Wellington showing the Government building and Wellington Railway Station and surrounding buildings. In the immediate foreground is a church bell tower. Painted ca 1950. Purchased by National Art Gallery in 1955 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photo-lithograph, 150 x 105 mm