Spiders

Date: 1980

From: [Ephemera and posters around A3 size, for variety, comedy, and music-hall shows and performances in New Zealand. 1980-1981]

By: Wellington Media Collective

Reference: Eph-C-VARIETY-1980-01

Description: Poster advertising a puppet play by Rose Wedde. (from note on catalogue card in Ephemera) Shows two musicians in sixteenth or seventeenth century dress, standing beneath a tree from which a spider is hanging. Three more spiders sit in the foreground. The image appears to have been taken from an engraving of the period. Another copy at Eph-C-WOMEN-1980. Also copy at C VARIETY 1980 with no text, silver-blue on white. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - Screen printed Wellington Media Collective 1980 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Screenprint red on fawn, on poster 450 x 315 mm.

Date: 1997

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-448-045/064

Description: Political cartoons. Psychiatric care denied to those in need. Jim Bolger teeters on the edge of losing his position as Prime Minister. Jim Bolger offers his head on a plate to the new National Party leader, Jenny Shipley. Helen Clark congratulates Jenny Shipley for being NZ's first woman Prime Minister. Jenny Shipley lays down how she wishes to conduct business within her caucus. Winston Peters prostrates himself before the new Prime Minister, Jenny Shipley. NZ public dispair over the Black Caps' performance. Jenny Shipley is set to devour coalition partner, Winston Peters during their coalition talks. Max Bradford calls for submissions on the government's proposals allowing people to work Christmas Day for cash. Winston Peters is pressured by his party, NZ First, to continue in coalition with National under the new leadership of Jenny Shipley. NZ First / National Party coalition government is recemented but there's trouble ahead. Obituary to the tourists murdered by Islamic extremists in Egypt. Jim Bolger is overwhelmed by complimentary cards following his fall from the National Party leadership. Workers comment on the compulsory pay rise MPs get. Labour Party Conference participants behave as if they have become the government when they are still in opposition. White power advocates call for one law for all with some exceptions for themselves. Jim Bolger advises foreign leaders of the first signs of a coup, unsolicited phone calls pledging loyalty. The tell-tale signs of smoking in women. The pros and cons of the Hamilton East Telecom Mobile Phone Tower. Jenny Shipley is seen to have a level demeanour. Quantity: 20 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1983

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

Reference: A-360-142/175

Description: Cartoons on international and New Zealand political and social issues. Quantity: 33 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1931 - 1936

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1930s-02

Description: Card shows an illustration of a longhaired girl, probably Maori, operating a radio-telegraph set mounted on a tree stump. Above her a spider crosses its web slung between two uprights. At left a moa looks on and at the right a kiwi watches. The spider, moa and kiwi all have question marks of curiosity above their heads. The radio station name ZL3BT is spelled out in fern leaves at top left. Esme Herrick is listed as an amateur radio operator on http://dokufunk.org/amateur_radio/contributions/index.php?CID=2031, indicating a 1930s date. She married in 1936, and the card therefore probably dates before that time Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on card, 90 x 142 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dylan Owen, Wellington, in 2013.

Date: 1982

From: [Ephemera, advertising and sales catalogues of octavo size relating to sound recordings, record releases, mainly in New Zealand. 1980-1986]

By: Lowry, Vanya, 1943-

Reference: Eph-A-PHONO-1982-01

Description: An arrangement of text, with a spider as part of the Web Records logo. Performers featured on the recording were: Hilary King, Mahina, Topp Twins, Val Murphy, Hattie St John, Tracy Huirama, Jess Oakenstar, Di Cadwalader [sic], Mereana Pitman. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on flyer.. Physical Description: Photocopy on flyer, 148 x 209 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1999.

Date: 1884

From: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926 :New Zealand sketches in black and white. 1884.

Reference: E-310-q-018

Description: Caricatures of flies and other insects and the annoyance they cause humans. A starving spider, a failed fly-trap, a man wearing pomade on his hair and being bothered by flies, a man swearing at flies and attempting to drive them away with his newspaper, "the man who only feels inclined to swear" - a parson constrained by his calling despite the annoyance of insects; "ye colleagues" - the flies fellows, a mosquito and another small devil-shaped stinging insect. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink in bound album, page size 173 x 252 mm

Date: 1975 - 1977

From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s

Reference: A-297-273

Description: A sleeping old man in a chair, snoring and covered in cobwebs. His dog sleeps at his feet Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper

Date: ca 1910

Reference: 1/2-174817-G

Description: Photographer unknown. Inscriptions: Recto - Has number 17586 scratched into the emulsion Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1870

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Sumner, Lyttelton, Central Otago, Lake Wakatipu, Kawarau Gorge, Oamaru, Dunedin, Clutha River. 1870 to 1873]

Reference: E-016-4-001

Description: A perching thrush, a worm in its beak. A spider with a light dagger-shaped cross on its dark greyish-green back Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, page size 88 x 153 mm.

Date: 1991

By: Gunson, Dave, active 1980-2000s; New Zealand geographic (Periodical); Academy Press Publishing Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-ANIMALS-1991-01

Description: Shows coloured illustrations of 21 spiders with descriptions of their habits and habitats. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph 585 x 820 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2005.

Date: 1993

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc], 1949- :New Zealand Herald; Cartoons, 7 - 30 September 1993

Reference: H-014-003

Description: Shows a policeman looking at his finger, which has been bitten by a spider with the face of Richard Prebble. Refers to the poisonous bite of the white spider and to Prebble's allegations of police corruption Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: 1930 - 1933

By: Nestle & Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company (Australasia) Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-PICTURE-CARDS-Nestle-1930-01

Description: Booklet with an image of Tutankhamen on the front cover. The sections inside include: The art of the spider, The animal nursery, Nature as an architect, Singers of the tropical rain forests, The tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, bridge building, Monuments to inventors, Mountain railways, Apline plants, Pheasants, Crane, The cradle of life (ie primitive life forms). Two copies held. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Scrapbook for picture cards, 16 pages, each 260 x 209 mm. Provenance: One copy donated by Ms Janet Horncy, Wellington, in 2008.

Date: 1965 - 1966

From: Various artists :[Original illustrations for the Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A H McLintock, 1966].

By: Adams, Jacqueline Nancy Mary, 1926-2007

Reference: A-332-152/161

Description: Includes illustrations of Katipo, Adult female Stephens Island weta, Cave weta, Grassgrub beetle, Puriri moth, Vegetable caterpillar, Huhu, Cicadas (cingulata, muta, orchrina), Proina moth, Large-headed weta. Most appear to be the work of Nancy Adams Other Titles - Encyclopedia Quantity: 10 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings, sizes varying. Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts and Archives in 1998..

Date: 1910 - 1920

By: Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: C-109-013

Description: Head and shoulders caricature of a small girl weeping, a large hairy spider suspended by its web from her nose. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - T. Lloyd Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 472 x 328 mm

Date: 1883, [1970-1990]

From: Starke, June, 1923-2006 : Research papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7841-1

Description: Correspondence from various people to Starke; input in the Name field. Also copy of `Hadfield of the Kapiti Coast' by Ormnond Burton; and letter from Octavius Hadfield to F de Jersey Clere (1883). Other Titles - Hadfield of the Kapiti Coast by Ormond Burton Quantity: 1 folder(s). Hand-drawn and painted card by Janet Paul

Date: 1873

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852. Collector :[Fossil remains, England, 1800-1850]

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; Nairn, Francis Edward, 1819?-1910

Reference: A-142-056

Description: A large New Zealand spider `Pungawerewere' is a general Maori word for spider Other Titles - Spider Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 230 x 280 mm Provenance: Probably given to Walter Mantell by the artist

Date: 1974

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

Reference: C-132-207-2

Description: Shows a couple resting from their gardening, having a pot of tea and contemplating a messy spider's web. They talk about Bill Rowling, the Prime Minister of New Zealand at the time. Exhibited in the 'The Daily Smile: Eric Heath cartoons 1965-1993 (Exhibition)', 1994 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signature and date]. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 460 x 575 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1976 - 1977

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: C-132-675/691

Description: Includes cartoons about Bill Rowling and Robert Muldoon and the slogan "New Zealand the way you want it", Labour sharpens its knives for the next election in 3 years, criticism from the Values Party, Muldoon using the clobbering machine on TV1 and TV2, Labour Party song suggestion, spiders in Parliament, Rowling and Bob Jones consider what party Jones will back next, the Australian dollar approaching value of $NZ, onions gherkins and chocolate biscuits popular in parliament, Labour and Social credit as a 2-headed knight attacking Muldoon, 50 cats have a haven under Bellamy's, Rowling crusades while the nation watches rugby, Rowling takes speech lessons, Hugh Watt looking for Onehunga seat again, Labour in a rowboat attacked by National sharks. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged at around the estimated date. Quantity: 17 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 510 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1830 - 1840

From: Taylor, Richard 1805-1873 :Drawings and sketchs[sic]. 1830.

Reference: E-273-q-012

Description: Shows a hairy spider, a scorpion, and a black and yellow beetle. These insects may or may not be indigenous to Great Britain. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 260 x 185 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1949

From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].

By: Rykers, Neville Leslie, 1927-2012; Dartford (Firm)

Reference: C-166-007

Description: Four panels of illustrations to nursery rhymes: Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle Little Miss Muffit sat on a tuffit Little Boy Blue come blow your horn! There was an old woman who lived in a shoe Based on provenance, probably drawn by Neville Ryker and printed by Dartford Productions, in the 1940s. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet, 450 x 590 mm.