Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874

Date: 26 Jun-1 Nov 1854

By: Chapman, Frederick, active 1849-1854

Reference: MS-0494

Description: Copy of diary of F Chapman of Edenham Station, with photographic copies of his brother, Alfred Chapman's sketches, taken from the original. Also three pages of notes on diary at end. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (42 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; red cloth) Illustrated with photographs of sketches by his brother Alfred under the pseudonym of Alfred Steelpen

Date: 4 Jan-18 Feb 1856

By: Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874

Reference: qMS-0415

Description: Journal describing a sheep-droving journey from Hawke's Bay to Wellington Quantity: 1 volume(s) (86 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) (34 cm, red linen tie case) Illustrated throughout

By: Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874

Reference: E-202-q

Description: Copies of original drawings held by Hawkes Bay Art Gallery and Museum showing the voyage out to New Zealand, scenes of Wellington, Hawkes Bay, England Quantity: 41 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photographs, black and white, 345 x 220 mm

Date: 1856

By: Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-090-012

Description: Shows a farmhouse, sheds, men working in a paddock, flax, and cows in the distance on the left. Tall bush (Kuripuni Bush) is behind the house. Manaia, Mr W H Donald's station in 1856, was at Kuripuni, on the outskirts of Masterton Other Titles - Manaia Station Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 215 x 355 mm Provenance: Possibly from the collection of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull. The Library's 1967 exhibition catalogue 'Early New Zealand paintings' notes that 'Where no other source is given, the works were acquired by the late Mr Turnbull'. No other source is given for this watercolour.

Date: 1849-1858

By: Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874

Reference: Micro-Art-022

Description: Sketchbook showing views of the artist's station Edenham and other Hawkes Bay and Wairarapa stations, Wellington, and Maori portraits. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: Jan 1856

By: Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874

Reference: Micro-MS-0175

Description: Relationship complexity - Positive prints at qMS-0415 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 100 pages). Transfers: To Photographic Archive -.

Date: 1854-1863

From: Levin & Company Ltd : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1347-6/1/5

Description: Life insurance policies relating to: Jonathan Walter Callcott, 1858; James Campbell, 1863; Augustus Octavius Croker Carrington, 1861; Alfred Chapman, 1859; Francis Rawdon Chesney, 1854. Charles Carter (see Charles E Suisted) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1860s-1880s]

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874; Rhodes, Joseph, 1826-1905

Reference: PA1-q-193

Description: Album owned by Joseph Rhodes containing photographs and sketches and ephemera dated between 1860s-1880s of New Zealand and overseas. Includes photographs of Hawkes Bay dated between 1860s-1870s. Many of the sketches were drawn by Alfred Chapman, one section containing an illustrated tale "The life and adventures of Thomas Pinniger" (p 34a-d). On p 34b Governor Eyre is pictured lower left at Government House, Wellington. There are two photographs of paintings by Charles Barraud (one of Te Aro Flat, City of Wellington (p 68), and one of Wellington Heads (p 104). Many of the photographs of the Hawke's Bay area show the houses on various sheep stations, including Clive Grange Station, and Spring Hill Station (Joseph Rhodes), Maraekakaho Station (Donald Mclean), Woburn Station (Thomas Purvis Russell), Mount Herbert Station (Henry Robert Russell), and Mangatarata Station (Donald Gollan). There is also one of George Fannin's house in Napier, one of the Reverend Hamlin's mission station at Wairoa, and one of The Grange (Wellington home of Joseph Rhodes's brother William Barnard Rhodes).Others in the area are related to military encampments, barracks, stockades, and mission stations. On page 31 there is a photograph of "The great peace meeting, 1863", and one entitled "Whaka & tribe". On page 53, the caption reads "Donald McLean Esq. Superintendent, Hawkes Bay, purchasing Wairoa from the natives, 18[55?]." There are many photographs, postcards and tourist scenes taken in Egypt, Ireland, Norway, Italy and Australia. The Australian scenes show views in Queensland, including Australian Aborigines fishing for dugong, the Railway Mortuary Chapel at the Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney (subsequenlty sold to a church group, dismantled and rebuilt in North Ainslie in Canberra) and views in the Maryborough area. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown leather embossed cover 29 x 23 cm, with 79 leaves

Date: 1856

By: Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874

Reference: A-090-013

Description: Wellington seen from Bolton Street cemetery with fenced graves in the foreground, the flagpole at Government House visible lower down the hill and the houses of Thorndon to the left. The view looks north across Wellington Harbour with Somes Island and the Hutt Valley and Tararua Range in the distance Another very similar view in an album by Chapman - 'Wellington burying ground' - is held by the Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust. A photographic copy is the Drawings & Prints files Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 160 x 250 mm

Date: 1847-1875

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0214

Description: Correspondents include: Alexander Chaplin & Co (Cranston Hill Engine Works, Glasgow) to John T Stewart re locomotives, 1871 (1 letter); Alfred Chapman, Napier, 1870 (1 letter); F M Chapman, Te Aute, 1864 & undated (2 letters); George T Chapman, Auckland, 1868-1869 (2 letters); H S Chapman, Wellington, 1867 (1 letter); Thomas Chapman, Auckland, 1875 (1 letter); G Charon, 1861 (1 letter); James Chase, Porangahau, 1868 (2 letters); Chathanson [?], Grahamstown, 1871 (1 letter); Peter Cheyne, Rangiora, 1863 (3 letters); Richard Chilman, New Plymouth, 1847 (1 letter); W B N Christie, Camp Campbellfields, 1874 (1 letter); H Churton, Mataongaonga & Wanganui, 1858-1875 (4 letters); Francis Cittadini, Wellington, 1866 (1 letter); Archibald Clark, Remuera, 1867 & 1870 (2 letters); John K Clark, Australian Club, 1865 (1 letter); Archdeacon E B Clarke, Bay of Islands, 1872 & 1875 (4 letters). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1847

From: Balneavis, Henry Colin, 1818-1876 :[Album, 1830s-1914]

By: Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874

Reference: E-952-f-057

Description: Upper view: A path leading between two bush-clad hills, with bush on the plain in the foreground, the Whanganui River on the left in the distance. Drawing signed by A. Steelpen, the pseudonym of Alfred Chapman.On the back a lengthy text detailing the battle tactics signed Alfred Steelpen, dated 24 August 1847. Lower view: A cartoon showing gold-miners en route to the Coromandel gold fields in the 1860s 'From General William Henshaw [?] - son - June 1872'. Alfred Chapman used the pseudonym 'Alfred Steelpen' in 1854 when he compiled a humorous account 'Illustrated diary or life in the bush New Zealand' a manuscript held by Hawkes Bay Cultural Centre. He is not known to have arrived in New Zealand before his arrival from England in 1849 aboard the ship Cornwall. He may have been in the army before this date. The handwriting on the back appears to match his Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and attribution to 'A Steelpen'. On the verso handwritten text starts as follows, possibly in the hand of Richard Taylor: The natives occupied both hills. There are breastworks both sides of the road, at the foot of the Hills; & 5 breastwo[rks] on the crest of the lower hill, & on the crest of the high[er]. ... [Signed] Alfred Steelpen. Camp Follower. Wanganui, 24 August 1847 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink on wove paper glued to album page, image 144 x 168 mm