Forests and forestry - New Zealand - Taranaki Region

Date: [ca 1880-1910]

From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand

By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Scenery Preservation Board

Reference: PAColl-0444-1

Description: Photographs of the following: a set of seven photographs by Collis and annotated by F P Corkill, land agent, re landholding around the Waiwhakaiho River; scenic views such as waterfalls, lakes, and the Pink and White Terraces; bridges with annotations re height etc; sixteen numbered photographs mounted two to a card of scenic views in the Taranaki Region, Rotorua and the far north (including ones of Taumaha Gorge, Taranaki and Lake Ora - location unidentified); a set of seven photographs of the Waipu Caves including Lot's wife, the anvil and the sugar loaf in Morrison's Cave; a clipping of St Paul's Cupola and a photograph of Kauri Gully, Northcote with annotations on resolutions passed re the establishment of reservations; a panorama in two photographs of Flagstaff Hill, Dunedin with annotations re a potential reserve; and two of a tramping party of three men and five boys resting at a waterfall. Includes a recent hand-written list of the photographs. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted prints

Date: 1850

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: B-103-012

Description: A large tree fern (probably a mamaku) with epiphytes on its lower trunk, emerging from lower bush with a background view of a bay on the left, probably looking south Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 175 x 155 mm

Date: 1900 - 1930

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

By: Moore, Dorothy Evelyn, 1887-1963

Reference: E-754

Description: Includes pencil and watercolour sketches of Botanical gardens Wellington, manuka in Botanical Gardens Wellington, near Wellington, Point Howard from the road to Lowry Bay Petone, the Heads from York Bay Wellington, native beech York Bay Wellington, Egmont from Mokoia (several sketches), Mokoia homestead (2 sketches - similar to watercolour at B-163-005), stream near Melville Rd Kaponga, tree manuka on the "Round trip" D[awson] Falls, adult totara and weinmannia racemosa at the edge of the paddock at D[awson] Falls, Hastie's Hill, totara at D[awson] Falls - stem is shortened in this drawing, totara at D[awson] Falls. Latest date may be around 1930 - this is the date of the watercolour of Mokoia homstead at B-163-005. Inscription inside front cover indicates that the sketchbook was given to Dorothy E Moore from her mother in 1900 and then to Dorothy's sister John L Moore in 1920, also by the mother. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Hardbound red buckram sketchbook with gold-inscribed title "Sketches" on front cover, with 19 leaves, each 165 x 225 mm.

Date: 1839 - 1840

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: A-145-009

Description: River rapids in the foreground with a cabbage tree and a taller tree to the left, and two nondescript trees to the right. Low bush-clad hills in the middle ground and Mt Egmont or Taranaki rising symmetrically in the centre background. The preliminary sketch for Heaphy's watercolour Mt Egmont from the Southward (C-025-008). There are several marked differences. The mountain is less symmetrical than it has become in the watercolour; there is a ragged cabbage tree, but no tree-ferns; the number of framing trees in the pencil version is much smaller than in the watercolour; and the shape of the bush-line and the river are different. Other Titles - Mt Egmont from the South Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - Title. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on wove paper, 209 x 298 mm Provenance: Collection of A.H.Turnbull, purchased London, 1915.

Date: 1932

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

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: B-165-015

Description: Shows a tall tree standing amidst lower bush. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 360 x 256 mm.

Date: 1930 - 1939

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: A-373-011

Description: Shows Mount Taranaki, with native bush in the foreground. This is probably the work of Maurice Crompton Smith. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Etching, 75 x 103 mm, on sheet 178 x 112 mm.

Date: 1865

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]

Reference: B-045-056/057

Description: Shows men on horseback ranging of hillside at left foreground, a stand of bush in right foreground, overlooking a plain, with Mount Taranaki in centre distance. Title found on page [55] of diary. Previously given the title ["Military on horses. Taranaki. Mt Egmont in background. 1864-1866]. See similar view, painted 15 March 1865, at E-510-052/053. Other Titles - Military on horses. Taranaki. Mount Egmont. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - [Title]; Verso - bottom right - Major Brooke R.E.; Capt Betty R.A., Lt Campbell R.A.; Sergt Phillips, R.A. and self According to Williams' diary notes for 14 March (page 45), the army moved to Pa Manutahi on that day, and on 17 March on page [50], "in the afternoon rode out with Betty, Brooke, Campbell and Sergt Phillips to a point a mile in advance of the outposts and got a sketch looking towards Mt Egmont". Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 138 x 464 mm.

Date: [Between 1878 and 1880]

From: Swainson, Jane :Photographs of military forces in Taranaki, Nelson, Hokitika, Parihaka and Rotorua.

By: Sharp & Sons (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6014-1-06

Description: Native bush at Kaupokonui, taken, probably in the 1870s, by Sharp & Sons of Wanganui. Inscriptions: Mount recto - bottom left - Sharp & Sons; Mount recto - bottom right - Photos; Mount recto - bottom centre - Bush scene, Kaupokonui Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 132 x 207 mm on mount 252 x 315 mm

Date: 1856

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-013-2

Description: Several young men working on the trunk of a large tree, while others hold firebrands and fire rages in the bush beyond. A flock of birds are in the sky, top left Very similar to 'Burning the bush, Taranaki, 1856' a watercolour at E-453-f-008. 'Bush burning' has a similar trunk fallen across the centre and a man with a firebrand, with the fire just behind the people and the large trunk. The arrangement of the figures and of some surrounding trees and plants is different in 'Burning the bush' and a stronger atmosphere of fear of the fire is present in the latter. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash 140 x 200 mm

Date: 1890 - 1899

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

Reference: E-335-q-045

Description: A pond or lake fringed with tall bush Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 228 x 164 mm

Date: 1896 - 1900

From: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937 :[Collection of views of scenic areas of New Zealand. 1896-1900]

By: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937; Sladden, Lewis Coster, 1867-1939

Reference: E-141-q-011

Description: Looking upstream towards native bush Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signed: G.N.S. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 150 x 206 mm

Date: 1930

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

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-379-053

Description: Shows a stand of trees. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 257 x 357 mm.

Date: 1930 - 1959

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

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: B-166-007

Description: Shows a road in the foregorund winding to the right through bush, with Mount Taranaki dominating the background. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 550 x 380 mm

Date: 1968

From: Christmas cards of Ados Chemical Company Ltd, 1965-1969. [Wellington, Ados Chemical Company Ltd]

Reference: E-279-q-057-4

Description: View of tree ferns and palms in bush in Taranaki. Photographer and date unknown Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Green photolithograph, 148 x 98 mm

Date: 1847

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

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

Reference: C-103-025-5

Description: A low bridge across a stream and a rock ascending a steep bush-clad hill over the far side, with a figure ascending the road One of 9 small drawings on this sheet Other Titles - New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink, 80 x 110 mm

Date: 1920 - 1929

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

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-379-054

Description: Shows a group of trees in a bush setting. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 357 x 257 mm.

Date: 1850 - 1880

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926; Osborne, Mona Martha, -1955; Brown, Charles Carlino, 1820-1901

Reference: C-007-001

Description: Shows a view of Mount Egmont with a road in the left foreground, and a stand of bush in the right foreground. Unfinished. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 355 x 533 mm.

Date: 1876 - 1885

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

By: Lysaght, Frances Charlotte, 1828-1907

Reference: B-165-017

Description: Three studies of trees on sloping hillsides. Accompanied by backing board. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - Bought by J.L.M. [John Lysaght Moore] at Mokoia 1935. M.G.C.L. [Mary Grace Caroline Lysaght] had written at the back of these: "Done by Frances C Lysaght on the run at Mokoia in the early days"; Backing board recto - centre left - M.G.C.L. was Mary Lysaght, daughter of Frances C Lysaght, who was wife of James R Lysaght, who built Mokoia, Taranaki in about 1876 (house long since demolished, but name in church at Mokoia village). Church built by F C Lysaght in memory of her husband. Quantity: 3 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Three watercolours, each 177 x 125 mm.

Date: 1890 - 1900

From: Various artists :[Watercolour and pencil drawings by members of the Lysaght and Stowe families. ca 1870-1930]

By: Lysaght, Emily Muriel, 1875-1971

Reference: B-190-059

Description: A view acoss densely forested hills including tree ferns, towards a mountain that is possibly Mount Taranaki, although it is not a close resemblance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on loose sketchbook page, 193 x 275 mm

Date: [ca 1920s], December 1925

By: Ellis & Burnand Ltd

Reference: ATL-Group-00596

Description: Panoramic photographs of the timber industry in King Country, New Zealand. Comprises a photograph of Gardiner's Saw Mills, taken December 1925 by an unidentified photographer, and a photograph of a logging railway, taken circa 1920s by an unidentified photographer. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s) panoramas.