Reading

Date: 1945

From: Hall, James Oliver, 1916-2006 :[Caricatures and cartoons from the 2nd World War] 1943

Reference: B-099-002

Description: Six scenes depicting life on board a troopship, overlooked by a mermaid in the corner: `We are the boys of the Sanitary Section, we kill the germs that spread infection'; `Is your journey really necessary soldier?' (Soldier carrying food and drink); `Three bottles a man! Don't know if it's true, but it's good enough for a rumour!' (Three soldiers talking together); `Staking his claim' (Soldier reading a book in the latrine); `What a beautiful dream, Shorty - We'll let him sleep on' (Military Police patrolling the decks come across a soldier asleep on deck); `Are you feeling lucky?' (Game being played on deck). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 340 x 450 mm

Date: 1965

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-137-573

Description: Cartoon explaining cricket terms such as 'silly mid off' with a picture of of a cricketer behaving foolishly. 'Deep square' has a cricketer reading a book on nuclear physics while listening to a classical record. 'Extra cover' shows a man under a tent, and 'cover' a man under an umbrella. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd slip are all men slipping over. Fine leg and square leg are a man showing his shapely leg and another with a square-looking leg. 'Long on' is a Chinese player, while 'Long off' is very tall, with his head out of the frame of the cartoon. The bowler is wearing a bowler hat and the batsman is batting with a 'batty' or foolish look on his face. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy, A3 size

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-661-001/061

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 61 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

Date: 1913

By: Lindsay, Lionel Arthur (Sir), 1874-1961; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-064-005

Description: Fort Dawes in the background above a stone wall. A cannon in the centre foreground, and a man reading a newspaper on the left, seated on a grassy bank Another copy at A-064-004, print no. 2 in an edition of 50. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 110 x 165 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 192 x 228 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1913

By: Lindsay, Lionel Arthur (Sir), 1874-1961; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-064-009

Description: A girl seated in a wooden chair, reading a book resting on the right arm of the chair Print number 2 in an edition of unknown size The artist was an Australian Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, ca 160 x 85 mm [plate-mark] Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull?

Date: 1820 - 1840

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Gothstrom & Magnusson (Firm)

Reference: A-282-009

Description: Upper view: Two-storied wooden house surrounded with plaited fibre fences. A man is cutting logs with an axe in the left foreground, while a male missionary reads, probably from the Bible to a Tongan man, woman and child on the right. There is another Tongan seated on the ground near the house and another carrying a load towards the house's front door. Lower view: A river in the foreground with a canoe. A Tongan woman is stepping into the water behind the canoe. Beyond her are trees and a plaited fibre fence with a large two-storied European-style house in the background. Plate 160 from an unknown Swedish publication, probably a missionary journal. The upper image is redrawn from the engraving by Sainson, in Vol 1, opp. p.59, Plate 7, the lower from Vol 2, opposite p.70, plate 9 in Voyage pittoresque autour du monde by J. S. C. Dumont d'Urville (Paris, 1834-5). The Swedish language version of Voyage Pittoresque ... (held by the Library at 910.4 /P/DUM) is duodecimo size and has no illustrations. It was published between 1836 and 1840. Language - (translated from the original in French) Other Titles - House of the missionaries at Hifo, Tonga; First home of the missionaries at Tonga Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage pittoresque autour du monde. Paris, 1834-1835 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) 2 lithographs on 1 sheet. Physical Description: Lithographs 77 x 124 mm and 91 x 132 mm on sheet 276 x 230 mm Provenance: Purchased by the vendor in Stockholm in 1980 from a print dealer. Said to be illustrations from a missionary journal.

Date: 1987

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-363-001/031

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 31 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 2000 - 2001

Reference: Eph-A-DINING-2000-01

Description: Shows a cubist illustration of a woman reading a book. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of menu.. Physical Description: Relief print on paper napkin, 300 x 300 mm.

Date: 1887

By: Evening press (Wellington, N.Z.); Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: B-033-014-a

Description: Depicts Sir Julius Vogel after the fall of his government. He is shown in the Chamber in Parliament, late at night, reaching out sadly towards a bust of Pallas Athene. The bust is surmounted by a raven, marked 'Vox populi'. Accompanied by four verses, each one ending 'Quoth the raven "Nevermore" The verses are signed H B B Published as supplement to Evening press, 1 June 1887 Another copy at B-033-014; another at B-033-014-b Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 350 x 445 mm Provenance: Purchase; K A Webster collection, London, 1970

Date: 1924

By: Auckland weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: B-161-001

Description: Shows a woman reclining and looking up from a book she is reading, on the shore underneath a pohutukawa tree in bloom. A yacht passes by on the right. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet 443 x 313 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in July 2001.

Date: 1890 - 1897

By: Ussi, Stefano, 1822-1901; Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato (Italy)

Reference: D-003-095

Description: Shows Machiavelli the sixteenth century Italian political figure, seated behind his desk. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Roma - Galleria d'Arte Moderna; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Notes on shelf list give date as 1897, but this seems to refer to the date of the original painting not the date of this reproduction. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 535 x 390 mm, on sheet 1002 x 702 mm.

Date: 1887

By: Evening press (Wellington, N.Z.); Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: B-033-014

Description: Depicts Sir Julius Vogel after the fall of his government. He is shown in the Chamber in Parliament, late at night, reaching out sadly towards a bust of Pallas Athene. The bust is surmounted by a raven, marked Vox populi. Accompanied by four verses, each one ending 'Quoth the raven, "Nevermore". The verses are signed H B B Published as supplement to Evening press, 1 June 1887 Another copy at B-033-014-a; another at B-033-014-b Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 350 x 445 mm

Date: 1947

By: Cook, Eric Kingsley, 1906-1948; Cook, Freda Mary, 1896-1990

Reference: A-303-007

Description: Shows a bearded man seated casually sideways on a green armchair reading a book or sheet of paper, with a pencil in his hand. There is a radio on a small table at the right. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - EC; Mount recto - bottom right - Eric K Cook / 1947, 7A Fitzroy Square, / London W.1. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on brown paper stuck to card, 248 x 328 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 82-333. - Transferred from Freda Cook papers in Manuscripts and Archives..

Date: 1892 - 1893

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks] 1890-1893

Reference: E-315-q-6-032

Description: On the page, a court official seated at a table, watched by another man. Glued to the page, two studies of a gold-miner with horse laden with his swag, and a shovel; also a separate study of a man reading a newspaper Quantity: 4 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, page size 151 x 251 mm.

Date: 1963 - 1970

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]

Reference: A-424-056

Description: One side shows a sketch of a woman reading a piece of paper, possibly one in the library series, showing a librarian. The watercolour shows the back of a single-storey white house with a green roof, and the garden around it. Photographed in E-918-q, 167/246, and 166/284. Listed in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q Quantity: 1 drawing(s). 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: One pencil and one watercolour, 270 x 375 mm

Date: 1915 - 1916

From: Bell, William Frederick, 1896-1920 :[Caricatures and cartoons relating to the First World War. 1914-1916]

By: Bell, William Frederick, 1895-1920

Reference: A-222-007

Description: A profile view of Sir Andrew Russell. He is wearing his Army uniform and is seated in a cane chair, on grass, reading a magazine or newspaper An original drawing for the British publication 'Shell shocks' (London, Jarrold, 1916) Other Titles - General Officer Commanding , Aide de Camp Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Title in ink; also additional title in ink and pencil below work and signature in crayon, lower right Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Crayon & Chinese white, 311 x 230 mm

Date: 1887

By: Hands, Alfred Watson (Rev), 1849-1927; Fortune, Reo Franklin, 1903-1979

Reference: A-254-056

Description: Shows a monk seated with a palm-leaf-shaped fan in his left hand and holding the pages of a reed book (or palm-leaf manuscript) open on his lap, with his right hand. Hands visited Sri Lanka in 1887 on a voyage aboard S. S. Carthage Other Titles - Palm-leaf manuscript Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 358 x 176 mm Transfers: Transferred from Reo Fortune papers, (MSS acc. 80-323) in October 1986.

Date: 1878

From: Thomas, E A C, 1825- :[Album of a visit to the Motueka area and North Canterbury]

By: Thomas, E A C, 1825-

Reference: E-305-q-008

Description: Half-length seated portrait of (Anglican) Bishop Cowie of Auckland. He is seated at a desk, a book in his left hand Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph with background in colour pencil, 140 x 97 mm on sheet 295 x 245 mm

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Barraud, Francis James 1856-1924 :[What to do and how to do it series. 188-?]

By: Barraud, Francis James, 1856-1924

Reference: A-084-042

Description: Shows a woman reclining in a hammock, holding a book, another woman holding a rake and talking to the first woman, a man with a wheelbarrow in the garden in the background Extended Title - From: Every Girl's Annual [188-? Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, coloured 191 x 126 mm

Date: 1991

By: National Library of New Zealand

Reference: Eph-D-NATIONAL-LIBRARY-1991-02

Description: Shows an illustration from "Goldilocks and the three bears" and "Joseph's boat" by Caroline MacDonald and Chris Gaskin. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on poster 595 x 420 mm.