Dwellings - New Zealand - Taranaki Region

Date: 1980

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

Reference: A-408-201/207

Description: Includes floor plans, elevations and one section of a two-storey cottage. Quantity: 7 plan(s). Physical Description: Photocopies, 297 x 420 mm.

Date: 1849 - 1855

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Taranaki Museum; New Plymouth Public Library

Reference: A-284-031/035

Description: Show Taranaki scenes: Interior of George Curtis' house, Omata; Exterior of George Curtis' house, Omata; Alpha flourmill, Huatoki Valley and Victoria Road from Marsland Hill, New Plymouth; Henui (Weekstown) from the coastal dunes; Unidentified New Plymouth outskirts (possibly now Tukapa St / Westown). Attribution based on style. George Curtis arrived in New Plymouth in 1849 on the 'Pekin'. "As soon as a raupo house could be erected by the Maoris at Omata, George Curtis and his family went to live on his farm". (NZ Biogs, 1967, vol. 1, p. 53). Supplied titles. Inscriptions: Unsigned and undated.; Recto - beneath image - [Titles as supplied by donor]. Quantity: 5 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies, black and white, varying sizes. Provenance: Original drawings in New Plymouth Public Library tipped into a book, until 1992, then transferred to Taranaki Museum.

Date: 1850

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

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

Reference: C-103-043-1

Description: Shows Mount Egmont in the distance with houses, a seated cow in a paddock and a man standing to the right. There is also a low flat structure on legs in the centre. 'Hua' may be an abbreviation for Huatoki Stream. Other Titles - Huatoki Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 145 x 229 mm

Date: 1855

Reference: A-175-002

Description: A two-storied house with an outhouse, set amongst bush at the edge of the sea, with a backdrop of hills, at Omata. The house was that of the McKellar family at Omata and the artist lived there with her parents from 1852 until her marriage in 1856. She returned there, possibly in 1859, after being widowed in 1857. See also a similar view, from a closer standpoint, showing fields in front of the house, at A-175-003 Other Titles - Fernlea & Tataraimaka Range Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 180 x 338 mm

Date: 1842 - 1857

By: Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913

Reference: A-256-040-a

Description: Sheep and a cow on fenced pasture in the foreground, a cottage surrounded by bush and cultivated garden in the centre, hills and Mount Taranaki in the background. In the style of New Plymouth artist George Channing Gilbert and possibly from an original drawing by him. Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Opposite p. 209. Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted 90 x 154 mm

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-068-2

Description: A broad view of New Plymouth in 1882 showing the Barracks, Mt Egmont and landing place for surf boats Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - New Plymouth Taranaki - Barracks - Mt Egmont - Landing place for surf boats. 16/9/82. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 64 x 155 mm

Date: 1842 - 1857

By: Smith, Hannah Stephenson, 1813-1891; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-256-039-a

Description: Mount Taranaki on the left in the distance. Two cottages in a clearing backed by tall trees in the middle ground, with fenced in gardens. In the foreground a field with sheep and cattle and hay being hauled on a cart by oxen. The artist is very likely to be Hannah Stephenson Smith who drew views of a later family home in Taranaki, and was also the sister of the author of the book in which this view appeared as the frontispiece. Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, C. New Zealand or Zelandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Frontispiece. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 90 x 150 mm on sheet 120 x 180 mm

Date: 1841

By: Duppa, George, 1817-1888; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: C-029-005

Description: A panoramic view of New Plymouth viewed from the sea, with Gannet and Albatross Islands on the right, the Wai Tera (Waitara) 'originally fixed on for the New Plymouth Settlement", the 'present site of New Plymouth' (before any houses were built) - all on the left side of the panorama. On the right are Mount Egmont, 'Barrett's [Accommodation] Houses and Hotel', 'Native Pah' and the Sugar Loaf Islands 'The islands on which Barrett defeated 5000 natives' In 'Information relating to New Plymouth (London, Smith Elder, 1841). p. 9-10, under 'Climate and soil' 'Mr G. Duppa states:- 'Amongst other sketches, I have sent you a panoramic view of the Sugar Loaves, Mount Egmont, and the Taranaki district generally, which I made when I went down there in the Brougham, with the Plymouth Company's surveyors. It will give you a better idea of the country than any verbal description I could give, beyond a few observations. The land for about three miles inland is slightly undulating, but not so steep but that a plough would go over the whole of it ... It is for the most part covered with fern and brushwood (which fire levels with the ground) for several miles inland, when you first meet with groves of timber, present a most park-like aspect ...' Quantity: 2 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithographs, hand-coloured, 190 x 1450 mm (total length of full panorama)

Date: 1920 - 1922

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: A-174-014

Description: One house half hidden by a hill in the foreground, other houses in the middle distance and Mt. Egmont in the background. Other Titles - New Plymouth Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 255 x 355 mm

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Halcombe, Edith Stanway (Swainson) 1844-1903 :Sketchbook [1890s?]

Reference: E-335-q-016/017

Description: The artist's home, a single-storey house amongst bush, with Mount Taranaki in the background There are faint outlines of hills at right-angles sketched in at the left end of p. 12 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 164 x 456 mm

Date: 1856

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

Reference: E-106-f-031-2

Description: View looking down the main street of New Plymouth showing business premises and dwellings and distant view of the camp at Mount Eliot. Two Maori are standing and others are seated on the grass in the immediate foreground. Sugar-loaf Islands can be seen in the far distance. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 145 x 235 mm

Date: 1859

From: New Plymouth Public library :Photographs

By: Gregory's Studios

Reference: PA7-43-29

Description: Panoramic view of New Plymouth taken from Liardet Street. St Mary's Church can be seen on the far right. Taken by an unidentified photographer in 1859. Forms a panorama with PA7-43-30 Inscriptions: Mount recto - Gregory's Studios, Partridge's Buildings, 204 Queen Street Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: Ca 1900s?

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000869-G

Description: View of a few houses in Inglewood, looking down through native bush. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, circa 1900s Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - View of Inglewood. No. 1182 E Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1845 - 1969

By: Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898

Reference: B-086-024-a

Description: View of New Plymouth with streets, scattered houses, Mount Taranaki in the background. The original, at the time of publication, was in the possession of W F Airey, Esq, Lower Hutt New Zealand. Printed by Pictorial Publications Ltd. No 459 of a limited edition of 1000 prints issued at $5 each. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 254 x 373 mm Provenance: Donated anonymously, December 2008.

Date: ca 1880s

Reference: 1/2-002761-F

Description: Thomas Harrison and his family outside his house at Omata, Taranaki. Photographer unidentified. May be related to his diary held in Manuscripts (ref fMS-083-084) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1852 - 1860

From: Crompton, William Morgan, 1811-1886 :[Sketchbook in France and New Zealand] / W M Crompton and A D Crompton, 1844-1882

By: Crompton, Amelia Dorothea, 1842-1858

Reference: E-122-q-050

Description: A single-storeyed house with an established garden, including two flax bushes or young nikau and circular garden beds in a lawn, surrounded by trees, a fence and gate, and hedges. Further drawings of, unfinished, of one-storey houses. Possibly the Crompton family home in Omata Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 165 x 265 mm

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-012/014

Description: Three engravings from watercolours by S. C. Brees, Principal Surveyor to the New Zealand Company in Wellington, 1842-1845. They show a pa in the foreground close to Porirua Harbour, with a view of the harbour and hills, a European man with swag, walking stick and dog in the foreground; New Plymouth looking south along the coastline with Mount Taranaki and the Sugar Loaf rocks in the background, cows in the foreground and the houses of the town in the middle distance; two buildings of Joseph Thom's whaling station, with washing hanging up, barrels in the foreground. Other Titles - Porirua. Taranaki Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on sheet 365 x 261

Date: Between 1910 and 1914

By: Nelson, William, 1843-1932

Reference: PA-Group-00310

Description: Colour glass transparencies, made by the Autochrome process, of the gardens at Waikoko, the homestead of William Nelson, taken prior to 1914 by William Nelson. Arrangement: Photographs at PA13-0001 to 0006. Quantity: 6 colour original transparency/ies autochromes. Physical Description: Autochromes 11.9 x 16.4 cm

Date: 1903

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketches

Reference: E-346-3-048

Description: Part of the roof of a house and a garden, with a post and wire fence, bush with dead tree trunks and Mount Taranaki in the background. Pink flowers on the left. Idntified from the view on the previous page of the sketchbook, which shows the same house from a slightly different angle Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page, 163 x 224 mm

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850?-1936? :[Sketchbook; English and New Zealand scenes, with Tristan da Cunha, 1870s]

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: E-044-q-1-029

Description: Two views of New Plymouth, one above the other. The upper view looks past houses and gardens towards the sea, Paritutu and the Sugar Loaf rocks. The lower view is from the sea, looking at the settlement with houses, Marsland hill to the left, and a larger hill behind. The building on a rise on the far left may be St Mary's Church Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour in album, page size 228 x 296 mm