Canna

Date: 1922 - 1940

From: Brooks, Catherine, 1884-1980 :[Thirty (30) watercolours of Auckland, Onehunga and Rotorua. 1922-1940].

Reference: A-306-046

Description: Shows a view in the Gardens at Onehunga, across a sunlit mown lawn towards a bed of red canna lilies underneath a norfolk pine. There is a white wooden house with red roof in the right background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 146 x 255 mm.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Kelso, John, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-2452-F

Description: Panoramic view of a two-storeyed wooden farmhouse centre left. Arts and Crafts features, attic windows, porch over front entrance. Wooden gates at the entrance to the drive from a road on the far left. Drive curving between manicured lawns, with the front view of a car parked in front of the house (Number plate: PK76). Trees and shrubs planted in the lawns including a large bed of canna lilies near the house on the left. Fenced tennis court behind. Rolling farmland on the far left and across the road on the right, sheep grazing. Stands of shelter belt trees in the background. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-2453 for a view from the garden side Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Mr J. Kelso. 2 films Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 105.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Dickey, Emily Ellen, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-2456-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed brick building on the left with a porch over the front entrance. Three bassinettes on a path outside. Drive curving from a picket gate and fence, centre right and left, leading to the building. Large trees around the lawn in the centre of the image and to the left of the building. Agapanthus & canna lilies in far right foreground. Houses across road just visible between trees on right. Bed of asters along the drive in the foreground. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Waitiora [i.e. Whitiora] Nursing Home. Cambridge; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Nurse Dickey. Cambridge; Marginal notes on negative - 6 6 6 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 130.0 cm

Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]

From: New Zealand Centre for Photography :Photographs

By: Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992

Reference: PAColl-9528-2

Description: Photographs of railway scenes taken by Douglas George Hoy. Includes photographs of Wellington Harbour Board buildings and vessels, United Kingdom trip in 1980, and photographs of friends, pets and various artistic photographs. Accompanying material - Negative index Quantity: 65 b&w original photographic print(s). 11 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1946 - 1985

By: Angus, Rita, 1908-1970; Art Vision Ltd.; Heidelberg Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: B-123-017

Description: Shows spreading tree with white blossom in a field with a wire fence behind it, and green hills in the distance. Canna lilies are sprouting in the ground around the tree. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Rita Cook / 46 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, 308 x 401 mm, on sheet 350 x 448 mm.

Date: 1850 - 1898

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook

Reference: E-208-q-037

Description: Cuttings from plant catalogues [?] showing: Canna (Indian Shot Plant); Chryanthemum multicaule (Einzeine Blume); Clarkia pulchella marginata, fl pl; Lavatera trimestris; Erysimum Perowskianum; Bartonia aurea; Galliopsis bicolour; Rheum palmatum tanguticum; Cyclamen persicum; Anchusa italica; Retinospora pisifera aurea; Retinspora squarrosa; Mimulus tigrinus; Ageratum mexicanum nanum; Double anemones; Aquilegia. Quantity: 17 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engravings, various sizes on page 295 x 235 mm

Date: 1850 - 1898

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook

Reference: E-208-q-033

Description: Cuttings from plant catalogues [?] showing: Gloxinia hybrida crassifolia grandiflora nana compacta (Heinemann 1878); Chrysanthemum; Rosen; Mimulus cupreus; Carica papaya `Melonenbaum'; Canna indica; Viola odorata, fl pl `Belle de Chatenay'; Mesembrianthemum cordifolium variegatum; Papaver paeniflorum; Oenothera Drummondi; Papaver somniferum. Quantity: 9 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engravings, various sizes on page 295 x 235 mm

From: Angus, Rita 1908-1970 :[Sketchbook X. Loose sketches 1940-1960]

Reference: E-435-f-004

Description: A study of the range of colours of canna lily leaves and several orange canna flower buds Exhibited in 'ART Notes: 20th century artists' papers and sketches from the Turnbull Library' exhibition curated by Jill Trevelyan, in the Turnbull Room, National Library Gallery, 27 November 1999 - 6 February 2000. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 180 x 128 mm

Date: 1945 - 1955

From: Angus, Rita 1908-1970 :[Sketchbook X. Loose sketches 1940-1960]

Reference: E-435-f-026

Description: A yellow canna lily in flower, with reddish-purple leaves Exhibited in 'ART Notes: 20th century artists' papers and sketches from the Turnbull Library' exhibition curated by Jill Trevelyan, in the Turnbull Room, National Library Gallery, 27 November 1999 - 6 February 2000. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 180 x 128 mm