Cities and towns - Italy

Date: 1875 - 1920

From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].

Reference: E-881-f-026

Description: Shows Fra Bartolomeo's profile portrait of Savonarola, inscribed below: Hieronymi Ferrariensis a Deo missi prophetae effigies. Also shows a procession of hooded figures carrying a coffin or litter, and a torn photograph of The Execution of Savonarola in the Piazza della Signora, Florence, on 23 May 1498 (painting attributed to Francesco Rosselli). Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 26 Quantity: 3 photograph(s). Physical Description: Sepia photographs, on page 412 x 305 mm.

Date: 1928

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1057

Description: Commercial photographs and postcards collected on a trip to England in 1928. They include Perth Western Australia, the Suez Canal, Port said and Cairo in Egypt, Naples and Pompei in Italy, Toulon and Paris in France as well as a group showing the interiors of the Royal Palace at Fontainebleau, Windsor Castle, St Albans, Stratford on Avon, and Oxford in England. There is a photograph of the liner "Osterly", and others showing its first class public rooms. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1869

From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]

Reference: E-043-q-055

Description: Shows a town in the mountainous region of Italy Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, stuck to page 215 x 275 mm

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Crombie, George, active 1900

Reference: PA4-1216

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a street scene in Venice, taken from the Rialto, by [George] Crombie Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - From the Rialto, Venice; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - Crombie - photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1811

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-187-013

Description: A small Italian town in a valley, viewed from a distance Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash sketch, 125 x 230 mm

Date: [ca 2 Jan 1944]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-05187-F

Description: Aerial view of the Italian town of Lanciano, once a flourishing industrial centre and well within a range of enemy guns at the time of the photograph. Taken circa 2 January 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 1920 - 1939

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: A-383-023/023-a

Description: Shows a view along a canal spanned by a humped bridge in the middle distance. A gondola is moored at the left. Quantity: 2 b&w art print(s) (two prints of same image). Physical Description: Dry point etchings, plate 123 x 100 mm, on sheets 180 x 130 mm.

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Crombie, George, active 1900

Reference: PA4-1217

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Bridge of Sighs, Venice, taken by [George] Crombie Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Bridge of Sighs, Venice; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - Crombie - photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Brown, James G, active 1945

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-173

Description: Series of numbered photographs taken by Staff Sergeant J G Brown in Jan 1945 at 6 NZ Fd Amb, Forli; 6 NZ MDS, Forli; 4 NZ Fd Hyg Sec, Rear HQ 2 NZ Div, Forli; 4 NZ MDS, Faenza. Includes typed list of captions Quantity: 51 b&w original photographic print(s). 15 b&w original photographic print(s) (proof sheets with 53 images).

Date: 1864

From: Various artists :[Scrapbook presented to Jane Greenwood, from her mother, 18 April 1861. 1861-1880?].

Reference: E-636-q-037

Description: A general view of Vietri sul Mare, Amalfi Coast, Campania, Italy. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on page, 230 x 280 mm. Provenance: Donated by a descendant of the artist, Mrs Mary Watt, Wellington, in 2004.

Date: 1944

From: Searell, Luscombe Arthur :Albums of photographs of 2NZEF in Lebanon, Western Desert and Italy

Reference: PA1-o-944

Description: Record of the events and sights of Italy taken or collected during the Italian campaign of 1944. There are also some photographs of family and friends from New Zealand. These include hand made carpets executed by Searell's Aunt Eileen, and a photograph of the wedding of Winston Easterbrooke-Smith and Joan Wallerman (Joan Francis Stevens) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1939-1945]

From: Martin, Robert Thomas, 1921-2006: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1935

Description: Photograph album containing commercial tourist print sets of Italian cities, circa 1939-1945, collected and compiled by Thomas Martin during his service in World War II. Images from Venice include buildings and sites such as Santa Maria della Salute, various views of St Mark’s Basilica and St Mark’s Square, Doge’s Palace, The Bridge of Sighs, scenes along the Grand Canal, Rialto Bridge, The Ponte dell'Accademi, San Giorgio Maggiore Island, and Ca’ D’Oro. Images from Milan include the Duomo di Malano cathedral (including door detail), Milano Centrale railway station (exterior and interior stairway), Arena Civica, Porta Sempione city gate, interior of Galleria Vittorio Emmanuele II, Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio (including cloister), interior of La Scala, painting Leonardo Da Vinci’s 'The Last Supper', Raphael Urbinas 'Le Mariage de la Vierge', Pora Tincinese and city beyond, Sforza Castle, a fountain with a [Franciscan?] monk statue, and the monument to King Victor Emmanuel II in Piazza del Duomo with the façade of Galleria Vittorio Emmanuele II in the background. Florence images show the Duomo (Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore), Florence Baptistery (including ‘Gates of Paradise’), Arno river (with gondola), Ponto Vecchio, city view from [Monte alle Croci?], courtyards, statues, fountains street scenes, Palazzo Vecchio, Basilica of Stana Croce, Giotto’s Capanile, Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, Palazzo Pitti, Fountain of Neptune, and Loggia dei Lanzi. Image of Rome show the Colosseum, Altare della Patria (National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II), Corso Vittorio Emanuele I, Castel Sant'Angelo, Tiber River and bridges, St Peter’s Basilica, view from Janiculum Hill, Roman Forum, Piazza di Popolo, Fountain of the Naiads, Trajan’s Column, Capitoline Hill, and Foro Mussolini [Foro Italico]. Lake Como images feature communes Ballagio (including street scenes, shore front), Cadenabbia, Argegno, Menaggio, Tremezzo (also Villa Carlotta), Brunate, Ossuccio, Varene, Torno, Isola Comacina, Como Cathedral, Nesso, Villa D’Este, and Cernobbio, San Martino church, and Punta Barbianello at Leno. Also includes copy of image of the 4th General Hospital and Associated Field Ambulances Reunion in Palmerston North, New Zealand, circa 1970s. Arrangement: Donor identified item as "Item G. Places he visited in Italy + Photo last page 4th General hospital reunion 1970" [sic] Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 101 silver gelatin photoprints. Physical Description: Brown leather embossed album bound with string, 16 x 22 cm

Date: [ca 1930s-1945]

From: Martin, Robert Thomas, 1921-2006: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1193

Description: Photograph album containing commercial tourist photographic and photomechanical images of Italian cities and sights, circa 1930s to 1945. Collected by Robert Thomas Martin at locations he was stationed during his service during World War II. Images show scenes and sights from Trieste, Grado, S. Amrino, Padova, Venezia Lido, and Fabriano. Some images have a blue tint. Arrangement: Donor identified item as "Items F Purchase pictures of places he was stationed [sic]". Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 19 silver gelatin photoprints and 33 photomechanical prints. Physical Description: Loose album pages, 36 x 23 cm

Date: 1971

From: Blumhardt, Doreen (Dame), 1914-2009 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8566

Description: Views of Florence, Italy. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1971

From: Blumhardt, Doreen (Dame), 1914-2009 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8563

Description: Views of Venice, Italy. Most of these have been taken fron the waterways. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1946-1951

From: Perry, Thomas James, fl 1930-1960 :Photographs relating to Thomas James Perry

Reference: PA1-q-911

Description: Album begins in Trieste, Italy, in 1946. As well as views of the town there are pictures of allied occupying troops parading, Tito Youth marching, and communists landing illegally from small boats in the harbour. Most of the rest of the album records a trip through Italy and France made by Perry and a group of friends during 1946-1947. A large part of the album contains images of the ruins and antiquities of Rome, Ostia, Veii, Pompeii, and Herculaneum. A page of photographs record the gigantic war memorial and cemetery at Redipuglia. Commissioned by Mussolini, it commemorates a hundred thousand soldiers of the Italian Third Army who died in the First World War. There are three breaks filled with images of England. One is of a house and garden at Wappenbury, just south-east of Coventry, another is of unidentified rural scenes and friends and family. The third is two pages of the 1951 motor racing events at Silverstone which was the venue for the Grand Prix of Britain. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1936-1938

From: MacGowan, Mary, fl 1936-1938 :Photographs of family friends and a world trip

Reference: PAColl-8692-4

Description: Mary MacGowan's journey out to new Zealand is represented by 8 photographs relating to Panama and the Panama Canal. There are some photographs collected during holidays in New Zealand which include views of Wairakei, Mount Ngauruhoe, Christchurch, Lake Kanieri, and Hongi's Track. Most of the photographs are associated with Mary's return trip to England. She left Wellington for Sydney on the "Awatea" visiting Hobart, Tasmania, and spending enough time in Australia to see Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. From Sydney she sailed for home on the "Orontes" via the Suez Canal. Groups of photographs record deck life and other passengers, the warves, people and places visited while in Colombo, Sri lanka (Ceylon), the approaches to Suez and a visit to the pyramids sphinx and temples in Egypt, a stop at Naples and a lot of photographs and some postcards of Pompeii, and finally views of Gibraltar including one of a Spainish guard at the boarder post. Quantity: 102 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1856

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook [1856-ca 1890]

By: Read, Samuel, 1816-1883; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905; Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: E-207-q-087

Description: Engraving by Edmund Evans, cut from The Illustrated London News, 29 Nov 1856 showing the bay of Naples as seen from the rocky wooded height of Posilipo at the western end of the bay. A smoking Mount Vesuvius can be seen in the distance. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Title; Recto - bottom left - Artist's monogram Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 242 x 353 mm

Date: 1875 - 1920

From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].

Reference: E-881-f-027

Description: Shows a photograph of the tomb of the Marchese di Lajatico, at Sta Croce, Florence. Also shows a photograph of a sculpture of a mother and two children, possibly by Bartolini in the Pitti (from handwriting below - not confirmed by web search) Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 27 Quantity: 2 photograph(s). Physical Description: Sepia photographs, on page 412 x 305 mm.

Date: 1880s-1902

From: New Zealand. General Assembly Library: Photograph albums from the Mangaroa collection

Reference: PA1-f-209

Description: Photographs of the Italian Renaissance masters from Giotto to Raphael. Also works by Memling and engravings by Durer. Classical and gothic sculpture. Greek temples, and Greek and Albanian women in national dress. A large section of the album is devoted to Italian cities. There is a section on Britany, another on Bruges, and another on Clovelly, a picturesque English village Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).