Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Date: 1970 - 1868 - 1888

By: Avon Fine Prints; Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; O'Brien, George, 1821?-1888

Reference: C-061-025-b/027-b

Description: Port Chalmers, 1868 , by George O'Brien; Dunedin, 1888, by George O'Brien; Dunedin 1883, from Black Jack's Point, by C. Aubrey, 1883. Note on each print: `Reproduced by courtesy of the Otago Early Settlers' Association Inc., Dunedin, N.Z'. Issued with sheet of descriptive text from which title is taken Printed by Pictorial Publications, Ltd., Hastings. Issued at $7 per print ($18 the set) No 4 of a limited edition of 1000. Same as C-061-025/027 & and A-061-025/027 a & b Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Loose coloured photolithographs. maximium size 13.4 x 23 in on sheet 19.9 x 28 in.

Date: 1970 - 1868 - 1888

By: Avon Fine Prints; Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; O'Brien, George, 1821?-1888

Reference: C-061-025/027

Description: Port Chalmers, 1868 , by George O'Brien; Dunedin, 1888, by George O'Brien; Dunedin 1883, from Black Jack's Point, by C. Aubrey, 1883. Note on each print: `Reproduced by courtesy of the Otago Early Settlers' Association Inc., Dunedin, N.Z'. Issued with sheet of descriptive text from which title is taken Printed by Pictorial Publications, Ltd., Hastings. Issued at $7 per print ($18 the set) No 4 of a limited edition of 1000. Same as C-061-025-a & b and A-061-027-a & b Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Loose coloured photolithographs. maximium size 13.4 x 23 in on sheet 19.9 x 28 in.

Date: 2003 - 2004

By: University of Otago

Reference: Eph-E-UNIVERSITY-Otago-2004-01

Description: Calendar which can be used on either side, as each has a full chart of the months of the year 2005. One side shows a reproduction of a Christopher Aubrey landscape, and the other side shows a fantasy illustration by Greg O'Brien. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph on both sides of sheet, 840 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by Hocken Library in 2012.

Date: 1882

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: D-040-004

Description: Shows a panoramic view of the early settlement of Athol in Southland. It is surrounded by snow-peaked hills, with the Slate Range to the right. The Athol Hotel, run at the time by Samuel Paddon, and smaller out-buildings can be seen on the left, in front of which stand a cart and four horses. To the right is the train station, with a steam locomotive approaching. A path crosses the field between these buildings, and a number of people are in the scene, some crossing the path towards the station. A number of cows, including two calves, stand or sit in the field, and there are flowering harakeke in the foreground. The rosy colour of the sky suggests it is early morning or early evening. The painting incorporating the settlement and surrounding hills have been cut along the hill outline and pasted to another sheet, on which the sky has been painted. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C Aubrey 1882 [in brushpoint] All the railway lines have now been replaced by roads. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and collage on paper, 330 x 660 mm (sight), within mat 460 x 785 mm Processing information: Additional descriptive information about this item was provided by a researcher and updated during May 2021.

Date: 1894

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: C-007-012

Description: Shows the Castlecliff freezing works near Wanganui, on the waterside near the bluff, in the distance at the far end of a beach which curves along the right of the picture. Two horsemen ride along the beach, droving a flock of sheep. In the right distance a steam train approaches the freezing works. Several craft are tied up at the wharf, and other ships sail or steam away in the left distance. White shags (?) stand on driftwood branches in the left foreground, and an old basketwork fishing trap (perhaps an eel trap or crayfish pot) lies half submerged in the bottom left corner. Signed and dated C. D. Barraud 1894, lower right. However the work appears to be that of Christopher Aubrey and the signature has probably been added much later by an unknown person. The signature is similar to Barraud's lower-case printed style of signature but not identical. The watercolour is almost identical in subject to other watercolours by C. Aubrey, also dated 1894. The Whanganui Regional Museum holds three versions of the Aubrey watercolour, two dated 1894, one 1901. There is also one, dated 1894, offered for sale at Dunbar Sloane's Wellington auction, 17 November 2004, lot 29 (illustrated in the catalogue). All five views are very strongly similar, even to the details of the people sheep-droving along the beach, although the smoke from the factory chimney in the other known versions is being blow to the right; in the Library's version it is being blown to the left. The style of the work is much closer to Aubrey's style than to Barraud's, with slightly awkward rendering of people and animals, generous use of white highlighter, and a characteristic way of rendering vegetation Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C D Barraud 1894 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 284 x 438 mm. Provenance: Purchase: J. Travis, Wellington, 17 October 1975

Date: 1970 - 1868 - 1888

By: Avon Fine Prints; Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; O'Brien, George, 1821?-1888

Reference: C-061-025-a/027-a

Description: Port Chalmers, 1868 , by George O'Brien; Dunedin, 1888, by George O'Brien; Dunedin 1883, from Black Jack's Point, by C. Aubrey, 1883. Note on each print: `Reproduced by courtesy of the Otago Early Settlers' Association Inc., Dunedin, N.Z'. Issued with sheet of descriptive text from which title is taken Printed by Pictorial Publications, Ltd., Hastings. Issued at $7 per print ($18 the set) No 4 of a limited edition of 1000. Same as C-061-025 & b and A-061-027-a & b Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Loose coloured photolithographs. maximium size 13.4 x 23 in on sheet 19.9 x 28 in.

Date: 1990

By: Otago Early Settlers' Museum

Reference: ArtEph-1990-A-02

Description: Part one of a three part series of exhibitions titled "A Salute to Otago Artists". The other two parts are titled as follows: Exhibition 2 "The Valpy Family", 4 May - 4 June. Exhibition 3 "Images of Early Dunedin", 27 July - 22 October.

Date: 2006

By: Southland Museum & Art Gallery (Invercargill, N.Z.)

Reference: ArtEph-2006-A-01

Description: Exhibition catalogue and brief biographical notes. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographed booklet, folded to 210 x 150 mm.

Date: 1984

By: Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: ArtEph-1984-T-01

Description: Publication to mark to opening of an exhibition of prints by the Turnbull Library from originals by Christopher Aubrey and Charles Barraud. The exhibition was launched the Prime Minister David Lange on 15 November 1984. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 297 x 211 mm. Provenance: From the papers of Mr A G Bagnall, donated 2010.

Date: 1885

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Monro, Paul Alexander (Dr), 1928-2013

Reference: C-173-004

Description: Shows a farm scene, probably in Otago. To the left, three workhorses walk side by side; in the distance to the left, the house and farm buildings can be seen, with a woman and two children crossing the field. To the right is a bull, a cow and a calf; and beyond them three kennels, each with a dog outside. In the distance are the Southern Alps, showing snow down to their foothills Inscribed on backing board; wrongly named as 'An early Wairarapa homestead' Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C Aubrey 1885 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white on paper, 350 x 565 mm Provenance: From the estate of Dr PA and J B Monro, of Taupo.

Date: 1889

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-030-005

Description: From a front garden looking south along Brougham St; Wellington College on right in the distance, St Mark's Church and school on extreme right. Side and rear of houses facing Ellice St in centre. Shows horse-drawn carriage. A woman and child are walking on the footpath on the left, just past a landslip showing clay. An older couple are further along the street, also on the footpath. Pink house with verandah belonged to Col. McDonnell. Reproduced 1979 as ATL Endowment Trust print. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 404 x 708 mm Provenance: Thought to have been part of Alexander Turnbull's collection

Date: 1890

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Paterson, Nola Laura Noble, 1915-2008; Wilkie, Francis Howard, 1870-1945

Reference: C-030-029

Description: Shows the view from the entrance to valley, with a bush-clad hillside to the left and partly cleared land, the two so-called "Black Bridges" across the river, and a horse-drawn timber-waggon in the valley close to a house by the road The two bridges were known as the Black Bridges due to periodic painting with tar. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print in 1984, under the series title Wellington to the Wairarapa. Supplied title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 345 x 550 mm Provenance: Given by the artist (with a view of Upper Hutt Railway Station, Ref. no. C-030-030) to Mr Francis Howard Wilkie of Upper Hutt. Passed to Mr Wilkie's daughter and son-in-law, Mr & Mrs J. H. G. Paterson of Totara Park, Upper Hutt.

Date: 1888

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: D-032-002

Description: Shows a view of Wellington and Wellington Harbour as far as the Hutt Valley. The view includes the Terrace and Terrace prison, the streets and buildings of Oriental Bay and Te Aro on the flat, including gasometers, chimneys and churches (St John's and St Peter's Willis Street), the houses on Mount Victoria, Somes Island. Three cows and a calf are attended by a man with a staff, in the foreground. The image is similar to that at C-030-025, "[Te Aro and Wellington Harbour]", but extends further on either side. The scale is very similar, but the images of the buildings are not identical. Unlike most other Aubrey works held in the Library, both of these pictures use some gum arabic in the foreground. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C Aubrey 1888 Very similar to C-030-025, "[Te Aro and Wellington Harbour]", but includes detail on both sides missing in Te Aro and Wellingon Harbour. Unlike most other Aubrey works held by the Library, this work uses some gum arabic in the foreground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and gum arabic, 531 x 918 mm. Provenance: Possibly owned by Ivan Napier, Greytown, 1970s or early 1980s. In Harnett & Wedde winter antique auction, 1987, purchased Brierley's Ltd, Wellington.

Date: 1881

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Aitken, Robert Walter, 1828-1910

Reference: C-003-007

Description: Shows a view looking down from a rocky outcrop (partially seen in the extreme left foreground), on to the field of a farm with horses, cattle, a farmhouse, outbuildings, and at far right a haystack. A row of trees runs along one of the boundaries of the property, parallel to the river in the background. On the far side of the river are limestone cliffs and hills. The locality is more commonly known as Clifden, and Cyclopedia of New Zealand, volume 4, Otago and Southland, decribes it as having been a large sheep station. Other Titles - Clifden Notes on backing board recto: Painting of Clifdene Station on the Waiau River, Southland. Formerly owned by R W Aitken. Painted by a French artist. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 394 x 620 mm. Provenance: "This work originally belonged to a descendant of the Aitken family who owned Clifdene when Aubrey painted this work" (Auction catalogue, International Art Centre, 16 September 2008) Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: 1887

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Dawson, William, 1852-1923

Reference: C-126-007

Description: A covered wagon, drawn by six horses entering a wide river from a stony bank. A lone man on horseback and a dog are swimming half way across the river, ahead of the wagon. On the far side of the river is an empty plain, with tall hills in the background. Jacobs River has reverted to its Maori name, Aparima Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Ford Jacob's river [nr, i.e. near?] Wrey's Bush. C. Aubrey. 1887. [in black brushpoint]; Backing board verso - bottom left - Belonged to Grandpa William Dawson "May Villa" Dunedin. To Ian & Ray [?] From Mother For Nov. 22.d 1947. 33 Drivers Road, Maori Hill, Dunedin.; Backing board verso - top right - V5127 BSSS [Backing board discarded after conservation of the work] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white 297 x 523 mm Provenance: Dawson family, Dunedin, early 1900s to 1940s and possibly later.

Date: 1894

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: B-116-015

Description: Shows a stretch of the Whanganui River around Aramoho, with a large two-storeyed house amongst trees and lawn on the far side. The house is that of Major John Nixon. A canoe containing six figures is being paddled in the right foreground. A snowy mountain can be seen in the centre distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 230 x 393 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1888

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-140-006

Description: Shows a general view of Milford Sound with Mitre Peak and The Lion. Date on backing board suggested as 1890, although it is not in the artist's hand, but a later inscription. Other Fiordland and Milford Sound views by Aubrey are dated 1888, with one dated 1905. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signature - cropped] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper stuck to card, 288 x 500 mm (cropped) Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1891

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-140-002

Description: Shows a scene outside the wooden two-storeyed hotel building, with a coach drawn by four horses standing at the left and several passengers with luggage outside the front of the hotel. In the centre a man leads a pack horse. At the right of the hotel, two aproned maids stand with two men; one of the maids is working a waterpump. The stables building at the rear has a sign "Stables". Two swagmen approach the hotel at the far right foreground. This hotel is depicted from another angle in other views of Eketahuna by Aubrey - eg. C-030-011, C-030-026, and C-030-027. An inscription on the reverse suggest that this work was originally sold as part of an art union: 'Mr Parsons picture, 15/-. Two tickets 5/-'. The artist was known to sell a number of his watercolours through art unions, often advertised in the local newspaper Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - 'Mr Parsons picture 15/-. Two tickets 5/- [in pencil: probably an indication that the watercolour was once in an art union] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 338 x 509 mm

Date: 1889

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-030-025

Description: Shows Australian squadron (Orlando, Calliope, Opal, Raven, Lizard & Rapid) in Wellington harbour, Jan. 1889 View includes The Terrace on the left, Te Aro Street in the foreground, Willis Street with St John's and St Peter's spires. The gasworks are also prominent on the shore, towards Oriental Bay on the right. The view is very similar to the central part of the work at D-032-002, and the scale of the drawing is very similar. Like D-032-002, "Wellington from Brooklyn", but unlike most other Aubrey works held by the Library, this work uses some gum arabic in the foreground. Reproduced 1979 as one of ATL Endowment Trust prints Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C Aubrey 1889 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and gum arabic, 330 x 510 mm

Date: 1890

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Wilkie, Francis Howard, 1870-1945; Paterson, Nola Laura Noble, 1915-2008

Reference: C-030-030

Description: Shows the railway station and ancillary buildings, including railway cottages, the goods shed and the engine shed. Also shown are St Joseph's Catholic Church, the Provincial Hotel, P A Wilkie's second store (to the right of the hotel), and, to its left, Edward Wilkie's bakery and boarding-house Supplied title. Reproduced in: Kenneally, J M Upper Hutt, Wellington. 1980 (q993.1. KEN) with the following text (p.6). "The artist ... is known to have stayed with station-owners and at hotels and is believed to have left paintings of the district in lieu of board. While staying at Upper Hutt around 1890 he gave two paintings to Francis Howard Wilkie. One is a view of Upper Hutt and the other shows two bridges at the entrance to the Akatarawa Valley. The paintings have since passed to Mr Wilkie's daughter and son-in-law, Mr & Mrs J. H. G. Patterson of Totara Park, Upper Hutt. [Both watercolours in the Turnbull Library from the 1980s]. Shown in the painting of Upper Hutt are railway cottages, station building, goods shed and the engine shed. Also St Joseph's Catholic Church and the Provincial Hotel. On the right of the hotel is P. A. Wilkie's second store built about 1875 when the Fortune Lane community moved north to Upper Hutt to be near the railway station. The building at the left of the Provincial Hotel is Edward Wilkie's bakery and boardinghouse. Other copies: A second, almost identical version of this view was offered at International Art Centre, Auckland, 19 March 2008, lot 26. It was passed in. The only differences between the two works were in small details like the appearance of the cows and in the small group of trees in the left foreground. Both works were of the same dimensions Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 345 x 550 mm