Deans Bush

Date: 1848

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-064-016

Description: Panorama on 4 sheets, looking north from the Port Hills above the site of Christchurch. Identifies from left Putarikamotu [beyond Papanui Wood], Papanui, Dean's Bush, Hohoka Wood [Ohoka], Tarahara [a mountain peak] inland of [?], Te Kiekie [a mountain in the southern Alps, possibly Mt Grey], Patuokapua, Waikaipa, Okahau [far right] Removed from sketchbook E-281-q-027 and relocated at C-064-016, 1970s Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 104 x 102 mm

Date: 1907

By: Banks, Isabel Violet, 1873-; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: C-078-036

Description: Shows a tree covered area, either the Botanical Gardens, or Dean's Bush, Christchurch Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 272 x 146 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-014

Description: The farm cottages and outbuildings of the Deans brothers, Deans' bush, Riccarton, Christchurch. There are two cottages with fence gardens across a bridge, the milking shed in the left foreground and the bush in the background. A cart is in front of the cottage in the rear Inscriptions: Recto - title and date in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1843 - 1851

By: Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867; Burnand, William Henry, active 1843-1850s; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-195-017

Description: A naive watercolour of the Deans brothers' farmhouse and outbuildings, viewed from across the "Avon or Shakspear River", with horses, cows and sheep in the foreground, a log bridge, a man (presumably one of the Deans brothers) with a dog under a tree. The house is red, with a second storey with dormer window, a rain barrel below the downpipe from the roof. The outbuildings to the right of the house appear to be thatched stables, are open at the front and shelter a horse and three carts. Trees are roughly indicated behind the house. On the verso are holograph notes about Banks' Peninsula, copied from Duppa, Daniels [?] and Tyrell and from Captain [William Mein] Smith about Port Cooper (Lyttelton) and its merits for settlement versus those of Akaroa. Dating: William Deans was drowned in 1851, a fact that is not mentioned here, suggesting, along with the general tone of the notes, that this drawing may have been completed before then, although the two-storied building on the site was not completed until 1856. Other material from the same source was produced about 1850 or 1851. William Mein Smith's report was completed about 1843. The page has been removed from a notebook. The author of the notes (and artist) appears to be somebody associated with the Canterbury Association. The first two-storied house at Deans' property was built in 1856, when Jane Deans built a larger house on the site in preparation for the arrival of her brother and his family. The house shown here may be the 1856 north-east section, the earliest part of modern Riccarton House. Other sections were added in 1874 and 1900, resulting in a much larger building. One possible artist is John Henry Cridland, whose other drawings from the same source are quite naive. However another drawing by him of the Deans' property (neg MNZ 1215 1/4 - 'Riccarton, November 1850' - Hocken Library) is very different in style from this one. Identification: The building shown appears to be a roughly-drawn version of the first two-storied house on the site, completed in 1856. Other drawings of the same building appear as Plate 5 and Plate 14 (the latter by Robert Park) in Pioneers on Port Cooper Plains. The Deans family of Riccarton and Homebush by John Deans (Christchurch, 1964). Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [title in ink as above, with "only 50 Godley" in pencil in another hand]; Recto - centre right - [in river, in pencil]: Avon or Shakspear River.; Verso - [in ink, page covered in text] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watecolour on laid paper 310 x 198 mm Provenance: Originally tipped in to a volume of The New Zealand Journal, ca 1852, from Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull's collection. Prior to acquisition by Alexander Turnbull the volumes had belonged to W H Burnand.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-099

Description: A schematic map and diary cutting through the contours of Banks Peninsula from Akaroa to Canterbury Plains, showing Mantell's movements. Mentions 'Bruce's by boat [at Akaroa], Pigeon Bay hilltop. Edge of bush. Cross stream many times. Hay's Pigeon Bay, round rocks crossing 1 point, Pa small Port Bay. Heaphy's [Port Levy] by boat. By boat [to] Rapaki P[or]t Cooper, Plain, Opawa [Heathcote River] hip deep. Deans, Puterikamotu' [Riccarton]. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-016/017

Description: A panoramic view from the Port Hills up the coast towards the Alps, with Dean's Bush and Papanui Bush marked as well as a hill (probably Mount Grey) named as Maukateu Inscriptions: Recto - title and date in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 400 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-094

Description: Shows record of Mantell's movements for the whole of August 1848. Mentions travelling Porirua to Wellington on 1 August, 7th leaving Wellington for Nelson and Motueka, then sailing via Port Underwood, where he spent from 13 to 18 August. Arrived Akaroa on 20 August, Akaroa to Pigeon Bay, staying at Ebenezer Hay's 25 August, '26th Pigeon Bay to Heaphy's P[ort]. Levy' 28th Port Levy to Rapaki, 29th Dean's at Riccarton, 30th Deans to Waimakariri, 31st 'W[ai]makariri to camp in Tuahiwi bush'. See also his contour drawing of the same journey from Akaroa to Dean's at E-334-099 Quantity: 1 holograph. Physical Description: Ink, 120 x 350 mm (page size)