Silhouettes

Date: 2006 - 2007

By: Vodafone New Zealand

Reference: Eph-E-RECREATION-2007-01

Description: Poster advertising a two day event featuring extreme sports including motor cycle jumping, skate boarding, and cycling, shows silhouetted figures engaged in these activities, against a red and yellow map of the world with aeroplane silhouettes flying out from the centre in a rayed sunrise pattern. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 840 x 595 mm. Provenance: One copy donated by Phantom Billstickers, in December 2006.

Date: 1982

From: [Posters advertising exhibitions of photographers, photographs and photography. 1982]

By: Wellington Cultural Centre Inc

Reference: Eph-D-PHOTO-EXHIBITION-1982-01

Description: Poster advertising a photographic exhibition shows silhouette profiles of nine heads. Other Titles - Nine Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print, 580 x 408 mm.

Date: [Between 1905 and 1929]

From: Little family :Photographs relating to World War II

Reference: PA1-q-145

Description: Family photographs relating to the Little Family and the Jennings Family. A few places are identified, including Pangatotara Valley, Tahuna Beach, and Wakapuaka; and Beaulieu, Hastings and Eastbourne in England. Many of the portraits have no identification, some have Christian names only, only a few with full names. Inscriptions: Album page - `M. H. Jennings, with love from Natalie, May 6th 1905' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue covers, art deco design, entitled `Post Card Album'; endpapers gold with green and red design; 28 x 21 cm

Date: 1956

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :200 original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1955 to 1962.

Reference: A-309-091

Description: Shows two men silhouetted against a bright light which is shining from behind mountains. They are separated from the mountains by water - probably Cook Strait. Refers to the end of power shortages for the South Island. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service..

Date: 1912

By: McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935

Reference: E-206-q-003

Description: Head and shoulders silhouette portrait of a bearded and moustached man Paper is watermarked with Britannia in an oval cartouche surmounted by a crown Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on laid paper, 228 x 144 mm Provenance: Donation: J I McDonald, Wellington, 11 March 1930

Date: 1912

By: McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935

Reference: E-206-q-004

Description: Head and shoulders silhouette portrait of Professor Easterfield of Victoria University College, Wellington Paper is watermarked with Britainnia in an oval cartouche surmounted by a crown Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on laid paper, 222 x 146 mm Provenance: Donation: J I McDonald, Wellington, 11 March 1930

Date: 1930-1934

From: Lambeth family : Papers of William Henry (Jim) and Winifred Lambeth

Reference: MSX-9111

Description: Autograph book owned by Winifred Lambeth. Includes autographs, inscriptions, sketches, quotes and personal notes, 1930-1934. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms Autograph book includes pencil and watercolour sketches, and a black ink silhouette.

Date: 2011

From: [Ephemera and posters around A3 size relating to human rights, civil rights. 2000-2019]

By: New Zealand. Human Rights Commission

Reference: Eph-C-RIGHTS-2011-01/06

Description: Includes posters in English, Maori, Hindi, Samoan, Tongan and simplified Chinese, each showing silhouetes of different groups of figures standing talking together. The two speech bubbles above each group include the words for each language, equivalent to: "What can I do about discrimination?" - "Talk to the Human Rights Commission". Other Titles - Okay Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Human Rights Commission, 2014.

Date: 1899 - 1900

From: Hiscocks, Ercildoune Frederick, fl 1899-1940s :[Sketchbook. 1899-1900].

Reference: E-596-025

Description: A silhouette view of a stout man walking, an umbrella in his hand. He wears a bowler hat. Extended Title - From Hiscocks' sketchbook, 1899-1900, page 25. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on page 188 x 128 mm.

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

Reference: A-020-036-2

Description: Two decorated or gourds (calabashes) or koraha used by Maori for water carriage. Below them are silhouettes of two men, copied from Australian Aboriginal rock drawings. One figure has the annotation '6 ft' below it, and 'legs too long and feet too large' to one side; this figure is standing with legs astride and arms out wide. The second figure to the right has arms upraised and a more animal-shaped head than the first. Original sketch for lithograph In: Angas, G F New Zealanders Illustrated, Plate LV, no. 9 p124 (Calabashes only) Other Titles - Koraha and Aboriginal silhouettes Quantity: 2 drawing(s) (on one sheet). Physical Description: Pencil 241 x 170 mm

Reference: A-214-080

Description: A man in profile, possibly with an Elizabethan ruff Inscriptions: bottom right - indecipherable - the first letter Am the last H or K? Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 90 x 63 mm

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

Reference: E-106-f-001-1

Description: Poem entitled `Lines to Lilly written in New Zealand'. Eight lines, signed H N Longueville (undated). At the top of the paper is a cutout depicting a man standing on a river bank fishing. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) Handwritten poem with paper cutout glued to top of the paper. Physical Description: 360 x 245 mm with paper cutout 110 x 130 mm

Date: 1875 - 1880

By: Brookes, Frederick Augustus, 1853?-

Reference: E-206-q-007

Description: Head and shoulders silhouette portrait of a clean-shaven man in a bowler hat, with a white collar. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Fred.k Brookes, Silhouette Artist. Royal Aquarium, Westminster. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & pencil, 113 x 75 mm

By: Lind, James, active 20th century; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-038-028-a

Description: Twentieth century reproductions of late eighteenth century silhouette portraits of Banks and Solander, head and shoulders only, facing one another. The original that has been copied shows damage from fold-marks in several places Same as A-038-028a-028-c Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, b&w 240 x 158 mm

Date: 1912

By: McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935

Reference: E-206-q-002

Description: Head and shoulders silhouette portrait of a bearded and moustached man Paper is watermarked with Britannia inside an oval cartouche, surmounted by a crown Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on laid paper, 223 x 148 mm Provenance: Donation: J I McDonald, Wellington, 11 March 1930

Date: 1980

From: [Ephemera and posters around A3 size, for variety, comedy, and music-hall shows and performances in New Zealand. 1980-1981]

By: Killeen, Richard, 1946-; Last Resort Cafe (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-VARIETY-1980-02

Description: Shows an image in six rows, featuring insects, bird, leaf shapes, and geometrical shapes in silhouette. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - (c) Richard Killeen Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Screenprint on poster 440 x 308 mm.

Date: 1912

By: McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935

Reference: E-206-q-005

Description: Head and shoulders silhouette portrait of a bearded and moustached man Paper is watermarked with Britannia in an oval cartouche, surmounted by a crown. Robinson was Secretary of the Department of Agriculture at the time this portrait was made Other Titles - William Charles Robinson Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on laid paper, 230 x 147 mm Provenance: Donation: J I McDonald, Wellington, 11 March 1930

Date: 1912

By: McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935

Reference: E-206-q-001

Description: Silhouette head and shoulders portrait of scientist and museum director, Augustus Hamilton. Paper is watermarked with Britannia in an oval cartouche, surmounted by a crown Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on laid paper, 242 x 175 mm Provenance: Donation: J I McDonald, Wellington, 11 March 1930

By: Rex, Rudolph von, 1858-1916; Duncan, M D (Mrs), active 1970s

Reference: A-126-034

Description: Photographic copy of a silhouette portrait Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of ink drawing, 100 x 130 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs M D Duncan, Lower Hutt, 1977

Date: 1892

Reference: A-126-033

Description: Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on card, 154 x 95 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Lake, Pakuranga, 1982