Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942

Date: 1905

By: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909; Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942; Christchurch Press Company Ltd; Weekly press (Newspaper)

Reference: C-067-001-a

Description: Portrait of Maori chief Te Heuheu V, holding a mere. He is seated in front of an elaborately carved doorway. The oil painting on which this print is based is in the collection of Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand, Wellington Extended Title - Supplement to: New Zealand illustrated, the Christmas number of the Weekly Press, 1905. The following year, the 'Weekly press' Christmas supplement portrait was of Te Heuheu Tukino V's wife, Te Rerehau Kahotea (now at C-067-002). According to a descendant, Priscilla Rolleston, the marae shown is at Waihi. The carved doorway is now in Canterbury Museum. (Pers. comm. 8 September 1994) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 507 x 369 mm on sheet 622 x 435 mm

Date: 1900 - 1909

By: Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942; Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand; Heyes, Julian, active 2006

Reference: Eph-B-STATIONERY-1900s-01

Description: Letterhead stationery showing a steam train pulling carriages along a line. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, purple on cream paper, 330 x 206 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Julian Heyes, Levin, in 2006. Transfers: Four photographs of the Christchurch Press printing section, from the same provenance, transferred to Photographic Archive - PAColl-8763..

Date: 190?

By: Presants, Alice Myrtle, active 1986; Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942

Reference: PAColl-7911

Description: Negatives taken by Philip Robert Presants (1868-1942?), lithographer. The collection consists of family and scenic views, including Lake Wakatipu. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/1-029965 to 029987-G Quantity: 23 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negatives

Date: 1894 - 1902

By: Graphic (London, England); Leslie, George Dunlop, 1835-1921; Hemy, Charles Napier, 1841-1917; Castaigne, A, active 1900; Lucas, John Seymour, 1849-1923; Huthsteiner, Rudolf, 1855-; Hofmann, H, active 1800s; Ludlow, Henry Stephen, 1861?-; Millet, Francis Davis, 1846-1912; Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (Sir), 1836-1912; Dicksee, Margaret Isobel, active 1880-1890s; Yeames, William Frederick, 1835-1918; Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1881; Draper, Herbert James, 1864-1920; Leighton, Edmund Blair, 1853-1922; Craig, Frank, 1874-1918; Herkomer, Hubert von (Sir), 1849-1914; Lavrut, Louise, 1874-; Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920; Laugee, Desire Francois, 1823-1896; Wilson, Thomas Walter, 1851-; Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942; Christchurch Press Company Ltd; Reynolds, Joshua (Sir), 1723-1792; Jordaens, Jacob, 1593-1678; Cooke, Arthur Claude, 1867-; Johnston, Harry Hamilton (Sir), 1858-1927; Manly, Eleanor E, active 1890s?; Pollard, James, 1792-1867; Helleu, Paul Cesar, 1859-1927; Haenen, F de, active 1890s; Giles, Geoffrey Douglas, 1857-; Thiele, Reinhold, active 1890s; Townsend, Frederick Henry, 1868-1920; Bundy, Edgar, 1862-1922; Waud, C Leighton, active 1890s; Morland, George, 1763-1804; Shepperson, Claude Alin, 1867-1921; Brangwyn, Frank, 1867-1956; Sauber, Robert, 1868-; Boyd, Alexander Stuart, 1854-1930; Fawcett, Percy Harrison, 1867-1925?; Landseer, Edwin Henry (Sir), 1802-1873; Velasquez, Diego, 1599-1660; Cleaver, Reginald, active 1890-1930; Hatherell, William, active 1870-1890; Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014; New Zealand. Post and Telegraph Department. Wellington Social and Literary Club

Reference: C-124-003/056

Description: Includes: G D Leslie "A type of female beauty"; C Napier Hemy "The home moorings"; A Castaigne "Seen through Parisian spectacles - the English as they are portrayed on the music-hall stage"; Seymour Lucas "The Right Hon. Lord George Francis Hamilton M. P., Secretary of State for India"; R Huthsteiner "The late Right Hon. John Bright M.P."; H Hofmann "The sermon on the Mount"; Hal Ludlow "The fencing girl"; F D Millet "A love letter"; L Alma-Tadema "An earthly paradise"; Margaret Isobel Dicksee "Sheridan at the Lindleys"; W F Yeames "Cordelia"; Riddle & Couchman, lith "Lord Salisbury, the new Prime Minister"; Sydney P Hall "Mr Gladstone reading the lessons in Hawarden Parish Church"; Herbert J Draper "The lament for Icarus"; E Blair-Leighton "Elaine"; Frank Craig "Royal Henley - the scene on the river between the races"; Professor Herkomer "HRH The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, K.G."; Louise Lavrut "Gitaine"; ["Fighting the Germans on ruined walls"]; Hugh Thomson "An Irish horse fair"; D Laugee "Victor Hugo"; L Alma-Tadema "Celebrities of the day - L Alma-Tadema - drawn from life"; T Blake Wirzman "Celebrities of the day - Sir Julius Benedict - drawn from life"; T Walter Wilson "Celebrities of the day - Comte Ferdinand de Lesseps, G.C.S.I. - drawn from life"; Philip R Presants "HRH The Duke of Cornwall and York" / Christchurch Press Company 1901; Sir Joshua Reynolds "Lady Elizabeth Foster, afterwards Duchess of Devonshire"; Jordaens "Portrait of a family in a garden"; [M McClinkiche?] "The late Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., F.R.S."; Roberts "Celebrities of the day - Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate"; Arthur C Cooke "The fortune teller"; Sir Harry Johnston "The Okapi (Ocapia Johnstoni) - the new animal discovered in Central Africa"; Eleanor E Manly "Will you dance with me?"; James Pollard "The Mail coach in a flood"; P Helleu "Studies of girl life"; F de Haene "For Queen and country - the soldiers of the great city" (2 different scenes); G D Giles "The ambuscade at Koorn Spruit - a critical moment"; Reinhold Thiele "Field-Marshal Earl Roberts, V.C., K.G., Commander-in-Chief of the British Army"; F de Haenen "South Africa - Christmas 1899"; F H Townsend "The crowning of Queen Alexandra by the Archbishop of York, at Westminster Abbey, August 9th, 1902"; Edgar Bundy "The sponging house"; C Leighton Waud "The poor girl didn't know, you know"; C A Shepperson "Love me, love my dog"; George Morland "Shooting pieces; facsimiles of old prints"; Phil May "Notes by a globe-trotter in Picardy"; John Fairfax & Sons, Sydney "Home for the holidays"; Frank Brangwyn "The last of her"; R Sauber "Fair sport"; A S Boyd "The annual ball at Auchtertaverty - a love story with a sequel"; Captain P H Fawcett "The story of a conger - a tale without words"; Sir Edwin Landseer "Highland dogs"; Velasquez "Portrait of Don Antonio Pimentel, Count of Benavente"; Mono "Mary, Queen of England"; Reginald Cleaver "Sketches at the carnival at Nice"; W Hatherell "Their gracious Majesties King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra". Inscriptions: Verso - centre - [Stamp of Wellington Social and Literary Club, Post and Telegraph] Quantity: 54 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (some coloured). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying. Provenance: Donated by Dr Les Cleveland in 1998. Previously owned by the Wellington Social and Literary Club of New Zealand Post and Telegraph. Transfers: From Ephemera Collection -.

Date: [Between 1899 and 1909]

By: Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942; Heyes, Julian, active 2006

Reference: PAColl-8763

Description: Photographs of the printing section of The Press, Christchurch, taken between 1899 and 1909, probably by a staff photographer of The Press. The photographs depict staff working the printing machinery and drawing advertisements. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Donated by Mr Julian Heyes, Levin, in 2006. Transfers: From Ephemera Collection - Eph-B-STATIONERY-1890s-01 and Eph-B-STATIONERY-1900s-01.

Date: 1900

By: Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942; Weekly press (Newspaper)

Reference: B-055-002

Description: Caricature of Lord Roberts Extended Title - Supplement to: The Weekly Press, 9th May, 1900 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 345 x 240 mm

Date: 1921

From: [Programmes for ballet and dance performances in New Zealand. 1920-1929]

By: Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942

Reference: Eph-A-DANCE-1921-01-cover

Description: Shows a fairy holding flowers and riding through the air, standing on the back of a bat, and passing over a sprig of blossom and a blossom fairy. There is a large moon in the background. Other Titles - Lessees J. C. Williamson, Ltd. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Turnbull Hickson & Gooder, Ltd, Wellington, N.Z. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of programme.. Physical Description: Offset lithograph, coloured, 220 x 136 mm.

Date: 1906

By: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909; Christchurch Press Company Ltd; Weekly press (Newspaper); Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942

Reference: C-067-002

Description: Portrait of Maori woman Te Rerehau Kahotea (wife of Te Heuheu V) holding the "mere pahikaure", a taonga of the Ngati Tuwharetoa. She wears a feather cloak, tooth earrings, and has a chin moko. This chromolithograph was published as a companion piece to the portrait of Te Heuheu Tukino V, her husband, issued in the 'Weekly press' Christmas number of the previous year. Extended Title - Supplement to: New Zealand illustrated, the Christmas number of the Weekly Press, 1906. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Very faint]: Philip Presants Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 575 x 370 mm

Date: 1898 - 1899

By: Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942; Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-F-SHIP-1899

Description: Shows the "Ruahine" steam-sail ship with two rowboats in foreground. Lower half contains calendar, flanked by, (on left) a list of boats in the fleet, and (on right) the routes taken by the fleet. Some ornate fish decorate these panels. Other Titles - calendar Extended Title - Christchurch Press Chromo Lithos, N.Z. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - P.R. Presants; Recto - beneath image - Christchurch Press Chromo Lithos N.Z. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) mounted on two boards.. Physical Description: Lithograph, 369 x 246 mm.

Date: 1906 - 1907

By: Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942

Reference: C-060-007

Description: Exhibition held in Hagley Park North showing the Exhibition buildings. Victoria Lake is at the left in the middle distance, the Avon River in the foreground with Park Terrace. Harper Avenue runs along the right-hand side in the distance. The foreground central entrance bridge was a temporary structure Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 260 x 660 mm

Date: 1906

From: [Ephemera relating to exhibitions in New Zealand in 1906-1907, including the New Zealand International Exhibition, Christchurch]

By: Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942

Reference: Eph-B-EXHIBITION-1906-01-04

Description: Shows a general view of the fernery, inside a glass-roofed building. A woman and young girl are standing on a path at the centre. There is a variety of tree ferns and ground-cover ferns. Extended Title - From, New Zealand International Exhibition souvenir, [1906]. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) in album.. Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 183 x 250 mm.

Date: 1905

By: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909; Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942; Christchurch Press Company Ltd; Weekly press (Newspaper)

Reference: C-067-001

Description: Portrait of Maori chief Te Heuheu V, holding a mere. The oil painting on which this print is based is in the collection of Te Papa, Museum of New Zealand in Wellington Extended Title - Supplement to: New Zealand illustrated, the Christmas number of the Weekly Press, 1905. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Phil R Presants The following year, the 'Weekly press' Christmas supplement portrait was of Te Heuheu Tukino V's wife, Te Rerehau Kahotea (now at C-067-002). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 625 x 435 mm.

Date: 1890 - 1897

By: Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942; Heyes, Julian, active 2006

Reference: Eph-B-STATIONERY-1890s-01

Description: Letterhead paper for the business of Philip R Presants before his move to New Zealand in 1897. At top left is an inset circular illustration of a sailing boat near an old castle or fort silhouetted on shore. The left side panel shows that the printing business produced showcards, labels, catalogues, calendars, posters, circulars, menus, programmes, etc., etc., with special attention given to orders by post. Presants came to New Zealand in 1897, so the letterhead must date from no later than this. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 261 x 203 mm. Transfers: Four photographs of the Christchurch Press printing section, from the same provenance, transferred to Photographic Archive - PAColl-8763...

Date: 1896 - 1899

By: Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942; Worsley, Charles Nathaniel, 1862-1923; Weekly press (Newspaper); McIntosh, Doris Hutchinson (Lady), 1909-1989

Reference: C-079-054

Description: Shows a group of seven boys playing cricket on a country road. One boy stands watching in flax at right, while a girl walks away in the distance. The wickets are substituted by an old bent tin. The following information was supplied by Mr L.J. Burdett, AT 13/14/1, 1 February 1995): The boy holding the bat, standing next to bowler is Thomas William Harrison Hill (1885-1972); the bowler is Jack Barnett; the distant girl is Cecillia Liddle. The town shown could be Dobson or Brunnerton (conflicting information in letters AT 13/14/1, 8 October 1987, from Judy Siers, derived from information from the artist's daughter Myrtle Presants; and 1 February 1995, from Mr L.J. Burdett). However it is almost certainly Dobson. Judy Siers also writes that "the attached print ... originally appeared in the Christchurch Weekly Press 28 October 1899". It is likely that the print was issued as a supplement to the paper, as it does not appear within the pages of the Library's copy. Title from pencil inscription on verso. Picture was formerly attributed to Charles Nathaniel Worsley. However, another copy in private hands is inscribed "Young New Zealand cricket in a mining town (Brunner area)" by P. R. Presants, and has imprint. It also has on the reverse in pencil 'Dobson, 1896' and the location of the view at Dobson in the hand of the owner's grandfather, Clem Green, (the husband of Cecillia Liddle). The owner of the privately-owned copy also believes the little girl in the picture is her grandmother, Cecillia Liddle (pers. comm. December 2003). Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Young New Zealand at play: cricket in a mining town Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) 340 x 490 mm.. Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 340 x 490 mm.

Date: [Between 1899 and 1909]

From: Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942 :Photographs of the printing section of The Press, Christchurch

Reference: PAColl-8763-3

Description: Two men designing or creating lithographs for The Weekly Press, Christchurch, taken between 1899 and 1909, probably by a staff photographer of The Press. Examples of their work can be seen behind and around them. The man on the right is Philip Robert Presants. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).