Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.

Date
1845 - 1860
By
Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886; Williams, Charles Athol, 1899-1990
Reference
E-137-q
Description

Views of the Bay of Islands and surrounding area

Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) 23 sketches, including 2 unattached watercolours, and a huia feather.

Physical Description: Watercolours, page size 220 x 280 mm

Provenance: Previously in the collection of Mr C A Williams, a descendant of the artist

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1 sketchbook(s) 23 sketches, including 2 unattached watercolours, and a huia feather, Works of art, Watercolours, Sketchbooks, Watercolours, page size 220 x 280 mm
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Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886 :Bay of Islands from Paihia. Russell - Otuihu. [1845]

Date: 1845

From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: E-137-q-014

Description: An extensive view of the Bay of Islands, (forming the right-hand part of a panorama with E-137-q-012/013) looking from Paihia towards Kororareka (Russell) and showing several ships in the harbour, probably associated with the sacking of Kororareka. The name Otuihu is no longer extant - it appears here to refer to Pomare Bay Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title in ink in the artist's hand. Also across the top, in another hand, in pencil 'Looking from Paihia south up the Kororareka to the site of Pomare's Pah, where the ships are going' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 220 x 281 mm

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Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886 :Ko Himiona Tu [1845]

Date: 1845

From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: E-137-q-018

Description: A Maori boy, dressed in European clothes, seated on a bed covered with a fringed flax cloak, with pictures pinned to the raupo-covered walls behind him and a jacket hanging from it. Either painted at St John's College, Purewa (Meadowbank, Auckland) during 'Himiona Tu's' time there as a student, or inside the boy's home. Himiona is a transliteration of the European name Simon and suggests the boy has been baptised. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - 14. Ko Himiona Tu [in brownink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 224 x 283 mm

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Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886 :March 23 [Paihia? 1845]

Date: 1845

From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: E-137-q-021

Description: Part of the Bay of Islands, probably Paihia from the east. View from around a headland towards a small group of houses close to a beach. Two small boats are in the water. One of three drawings taken from a smaller sketchbook, and sitting loose in the back of the album. There is a further drawing on the reverse (E-137-q-022) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on grey sketchbook page, page size

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Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886 :[Further temp record. Bay of Islands? March 1845?]

Date: 1845

From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: E-137-q-023

Description: Part of the Bay of Islands. One of three drawings taken from a smaller sketchbook, and sitting loose in the back of the album. There is a further drawing on the reverse (E-137-q-022) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on grey sketchbook page, page size

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Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886 :[Temp record. Bay of Islands? March 1845?]

Date: 1845

From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: E-137-q-022

Description: Part of the Bay of Islands. One of three drawings taken from a smaller sketchbook, and sitting loose in the back of the album. There is a further drawing on the reverse (E-137-q-022) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on grey sketchbook page, page size

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Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886 :The temporary college with a portion of the creek. ...

Date: 1845

From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: E-137-q-010

Description: A view from across the creek, looking down on the buildings of St John's College, Purewa (Meadowbank, Auckland). Bush between the buildings and the creek and two small boats and a canoe on the water. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [title in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink, Chinese white and wash, 224 x 283 mm

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Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886 :Bay of Islands from Paihia. Tapeka Pt. Flagstaff Hi...

Date: 1845

From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: E-137-q-012/013

Description: An extensive view of the Bay of Islands, with various features noted, including the flagstaff above Kororareka (Russell), the Roman Catholic chapel standing on its own on the hill and Bishop Pompallier's house, all seen in the distance. The panorama is continued on the next page (E-137-q-014) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title in ink in the artist's hand. Also across the top, in another hand, in pencil 'An excellent view of the ground about Kororareka taken from Paihia Wh... that the plan in the Illustrated London news is ... from brig. The sketch then was ... vol. of ... [last words partially erased, several words illegible] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, across two pages, 220 x 571 mm

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Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886 :[Portrait of a Maori boy. 1845]

Date: 1845

From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: E-137-q-003

Description: A profile portrait of a young Maori boy in a European shirt. He is almost certainly one of the students at the mission school, St John's College, Meadowbank (Puriri), Auckland Pasted in opposite the title page Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 192 x 84 mm (cropped corners)

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[Huia feather. ca 1845?]

Date: 1845

From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: E-137-q-024

Description: A huia feather, black with white tip. The huia is an extinct bird Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Feather, 195 mm long, glued with strips of paper to inside back cover of album

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Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :[Sketch of early church or house. 1845?]

Date: 1845

From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: E-137-q-020

Description: Almost certainly a house rather than a church, with half-timbered style gabling and a verandah. In the background are low hills and water. Probably in Auckland or Northland. Loose at back of sketchbook Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - T B Hutton 1860 [in red brushpoint]; Recto - bottom left - [title in red brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 178 x 141 mm