Places

Date: 1867

By: C & J T Bray

Reference: C-069-001

Description: Time-table with pictures of a horse-drawn tram, with male passengers seated on the roof, female passengers seated inside, and a series of circular vignettes of public and commercial buildings, wharves, etc. in and around Nelson. The fares are given and the information is signed C & J. T. Bray, Lessees. Businesses featured include C. Balme, Engineer and Millwright; Australian Royal Mail Company, T. Cawthron, Agent; Commercial Hotel, Trafalgar and Hardy Streets, J. Jervis Proprietor; Moore and Conway, Builders, Hardy Street; E. F. Jones, Dining and Refreshment; Custom House Hotel; G. Fleming, Cabinetmaker and Upholsterer, Hardy Street; A. Fletcher, Photographer, Hardy Street; H. Balme, Coach Builder, Hardy Street; W. Jones, Taylor and Draper, Hardy Street; Moore and Conway, Builders, Hardy Street; H. Hounsell, General Furnishers; Rob Hounsell, Brightwater Mill; I. P. Cooke, Plumber, Glazier, Painter; J. Levick, Albion Wharf; Albion Hotel, The Port, J. N. Wilkinson, Proprietor; Miners' Arms, corner Hardy and Collingwood Streets; J. A. Packer, Turner in General; Pringle & Co, General Grocers, Waimea Street; Hodgson and Friend, Engravers and Lithographers; The Colonist, Newspaper and Advertising Office, Waimea Street; R. G. Gibbons, Government Wharf; Pier Hotel, The Port, H. Jasper, Proprietor; R. Simpson, Cooper; Hargreaves, Butcher; S. Wakeford, Iron and Brass Founder, Bridge Street; B. Franzen, Sailmaker, Tent Depot, The Port; Steamboat Tavern, Haven Road; T. B. Louisson, House and Ship Painter, Bridge Street; A. Simpson, Cooper; J. N. Toonkey [?], Steam Sawing and Planing, Hardy Street; Burnett and Miles, Monumental Yard; T. Snow, Victoria House; F. B. Josephs, Hairdressing; Victoria Hotel, Haven Road; S. Wakeford, Engineer and Millwright; W. M. Stanton, Importer of Books, Stationery, Music and Instruments; W. C. Wilkins, Ironmonger; W. Akersten, Ship Chandler; Ship Hotel, The Port; W. Brown, Photographer; Wairoa Valley Steam Saw Mill; W. Harvey, Cabinetmaker; Mrs W. V. Salter, Milliner, Dress and Mantel Maker, Hardy Street For conjectured date see letter at TL 3/1/1/2, 11 Nov. 1986 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 575 x 450 mm

Date: 1853

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-066

Description: E-455-f-066-1 = 'Commencement of the Hutt Valley, N. Z. Part of the Wood Bridge to the left'. Shows tree stumps in the foreground, the first Hutt Bridge on the left and a row of houses and fences, with a bush-clad hill beyond. The view is in central Lower Hutt. E-455-f-066-2 = 'Hutt Valley continued. River Hutt and Roman Catholic Church' showing a scene close to the upper view in central Lower Hutt, with the bush-clad Western Hills behind and a clear view of the Roman Catholic Chapel (later St Peter and St Paul's Church) with its bell-tower and a large tree to the left. The river is in the foreground 1853 date suggested from the dated drawings on the previous page of the sketchbook Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: 2 watercolours, 170 x 250 mm each

Date: 25 March 1863

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-001

Description: An extensive view from the water's edge of Lake Wanaka and the surrounding mountains. No colouring other than the blue of the lake. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink on paper, 171 x 684 mm.

Date: 1883

From: Nairn, Betsey Wright, -1906 :Sketchbook

Reference: E-443-q-023

Description: Shows two scenes: in the top half 'Leaving Collingwood for Nelson', the small steamer "Lady Barkley" is being loaded with trunks, while the passengers walk on board along the gangplank behind their trunks. In the lower half 'Last ride in Nelson', two women mounted on horses, walk towards a gate in the left foreground. The foreground fence has a row of barbed wire for its top wire. On the right, faintly sketched in, is part of a house, with a garden archway alongside. Inscriptions: Recto - centre left - [First title]; Recto - bottom left - [Second title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 225 x 195 mm.

Date: 1852 - 1854

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-040

Description: E-455-f-040-1 = The Heads (Port Nicholson) as seen from Braithwaits clearing, Hutt Road. E-455-f-040-2 = Late residence of Mr Justice Chapman (now of J. Johnston Esq) [Homewood, Karori]. E-455-f-040-3 = Lowry Bay. Mrs Jackson's section. The Heads of Port Nicholson in the distance Quantity: 3 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, and ink and watercolour, sizes vary

Date: 1880 - 1899

From: Hodgkins family :[Album of sketches 1880s, 1890s]

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-312-q-046/047

Description: Includes oval signed watercolour portrait by Frances Hodgkins, entitled: "A Merry Christmas to you". Includes three signed water landscapes by William Mathew Hodgkins: "Near West Taieri"; small ship pulled up on a beach; mountain range and bush. Includes other sketches, probably by William Mathew Hodgkins: Ink sketch of near-sighted man writing; three head sketches; one charcoal profile; man with cap sitting cross-legged; two smiling black (African) girls in colourful dress; short person in long skirt; and one ink sketch of sailing ships off a headland with lighthouse and associated structures.. Inscriptions: Some sketches initialled by artist. Quantity: 6 watercolour(s). 5 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, charcoal, and watercolour, sizes vary, on double page spread 286 x 460 mm (approx).

Date: 1880 - 1899

From: Hodgkins family :[Album of sketches 1880s, 1890s]

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; Field, Isabel Jane, 1867-1950; Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-312-q-080/081

Description: Includes three signed head and shoulder portraits by Frances Hodgkins: a bearded man looking away; a man with hat and moustache; and a woman with veiled hat. Includes watercolour of dandelion flower stalk and leaves, by Isabel Hodgkins (I.H.) Includes "Art Club sketch" by William Mathew Hodgkins showing a hay wagon.n Includes a palette-shaped card (by K[atherine] Holmes) with sketch and poem about a lady artist, and her conversation with a bee, about going to Manapori [sic] to sketch. Inscriptions: Some sketches initialled by artist. Quantity: 5 watercolour(s). 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, and watercolour, sizes vary, on double page spread 286 x 460 mm (approx).

Date: 1852

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Ralph, Thomas Shearman (Dr), 1813-1891; Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875

Reference: E-455-f-030-1

Description: Shows a view of Wellington Harbour with sailing ships in port, as seen from the east side of the harbour, looking towards Lambton Quay. Clay Point is marked with a cross. Beneath the work, there is a key, listing lettered features: 'P. Te Aro Pah; 1.Thormium [phormium] tenax vulgarly called flax; W. Wellington Terrace; N. Noah's Ark or Plimmer's Wharf; T. K. Tinakori Road and on to Karori; B. Town Belt; L. English Church, C. Catholic Chapel; a. Baron Alzdorf's new hotel; g. Government House; W. Wades Town [Wadestown]; T. F. Thorndon Flat; p. Pipitea Point & native pah, H. Commencement of Hutt Road. H. Mr Hart's offices (on sail of vessel); X. Clay Point Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Lambton Quay - Wellington N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 193 x 293 mm.

Date: 1844

From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.

By: Giles, John West, 1801-1870

Reference: PUBL-0014-56

Description: Portraits of four Maori in two groups. Te Heuheu and Iwikau are on the left, with the palisades of their pa, Te Rapa, at Taupo behind them. Te Kawau and his nephew Tamakihi Te Rewiti are on the right, with the wall of a whare and a view of Orakei Bay, Auckland, behind them. All men are fully tattooed and three of the four carry weapons. All four are wearing fine cloaks. Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Other Titles - Iwikau. Taupo. Orakei. Te Kawau. Tamakihi te Rewiti. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 550 x 360 mm

Date: 1865

By: Hector, James (Sir), 1834-1907; New Zealand Geological Survey

Reference: D-018-001

Description: A panoramic view from Flagstaff Hill (Maiki Hill), above Russell, showing the Bay of Islands. The houses of Russell (Kororareka) lie below to the left, with a house on a nearby hill in the foreground; Paihia mission station and houses are visible in the distance across the water left of centre. 'Waitangi. Mr Busby's house where treaty was signed' is noted and can be seen immediately left of centre. 'Keri Keri' (Kerikeri) is noted right of centre, across the water, with a few houses visible. Moturoa Island is next on the right, followed by Black Rocks and, on the far right, Ninepin Rock. There is currently no feature in the Bay of Islands called Nine Pin (or Ninepin) Rock. This may be an earlier name for Harakeke Island, at the northern entrance of the Bay of Islands Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - in ink, beneath image, from left: Kororareka or Russell. Paihia. Mission Station. Waitangi. Mr Busby's house where Treaty was signed. Bay of Islands from Flagstaff Hill [title in larger script, in capitals, below the other inscriptions, in centre]; Keri-Keri. Motu-roa. Black Rocks. Ninepin Rock; Recto - two typed labels glued to folder. Sketch of Bay of Islands by James Hector, Christmas 1865 [possibly supplied with the drawing on donation]; A further label with title and artist details, numbered 20, including statement 'Donation: N Z Geological Survey' is probably an exhibition label from the 1970s Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 90 x 142 mm Provenance: Donation: NZ Geological Survey, 1974

Date: 1860 - 1865

By: Cooper, Alfred John, 1831-1869; Mouton, W J (Mr), active 1969

Reference: A-235-010

Description: Two women watching six men haul the blubber off a beached whale at the water's edge. Exhibited in 'Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art' Exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February - 22 April 1990. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. Title from notes on back by J Lavin Inscriptions: Verso - title and other notes in ink, in the hand of John Lavin: 'Cutting in. Cutting the Blubber off a whale on Mohaka Beach. The Fat is about 6 or 8 inches thick and has to [sic] cut off and dragged to the Boiling place. A couple of Moari gins [girls?] in the foreground. That whale made about 12 Tons of oil. John Lavin.' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 71 x 129 mm

Date: 1859

By: Hamel, Bruno Lancel, 1837?-; Koch, Augustus Carl Ferdinand, 1834-1901

Reference: PA1-o-207

Description: Album of photographs, with printed title page, signed (in pencil) A. Koch, 1859. Also includes contemporary newspaper articles relating to the expedition. One photograph is entitled Rev. Ashwell Taupiri. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Album of photographic views, taken during the Government Scientific Exploring Expedition conducted by Dr. Ferdinand Hochstetter, geologist, of the Imperial Austrian Expedition, of the Province of Auckland, by Bruno L. Hamel, photographic artist, Auckland, New Zealand. 1859. Inscriptions: Album page - `An album of photographic views, taken during the Government Scientific Exploring Expedition conducted by Dr. Ferdinand Hochstetter, geologist, of the Imperial Austrian Expedition, of the province of Auckland, by Bruno L. Hamel, photographic artist, Auckland, New Zealand. 1859'--Title page. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album 29.5cm x 24cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-0653 : Koch, Augustus 1834-1901 : Papers.

Date: 1843

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: A-275-008

Description: A Maori family in the left foreground, with a man heading towards a path rising up a bush-clad mound, on top of which is the Pa, known both as Maketu from the name of its meeting house and as Otawhao. To the right is a broad plain with Pirongia mountain in the background. The meeting house is the tallest roof showing above the palisade. Other Titles - Otawhao Inscriptions: Verso - J. J. Merrett. Dec.r 1843 [inscribed on holograph poem "Wake warriors wake!" on the verso] A very similar ink and wash drawing is held in the British Library (Add. MS 19953, p. 20 plate 46), titled A Pah at Otawao, Waipa. The British Library drawing lacks the Maori in the foreground. There is also a drawing of the meeting house 'Maketu' by Merrett (Add MS 19953, p. 28, plate 72) and a more distant view of the pa titled 'Otawao Pah' (Add MS 19953, p. 28 pl. 73). The meeting house itself is illustrated by George French Angas (possibly copying another drawing by Merrett) in 'The New Zealanders Illustrated' - 'Maketu house, Otawhao Pah'. (London, McLean, 1847), plate 25. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 163 x 247 mm Provenance: Originally part of Mrs Hobson's album. The album was passed by Eliza Hobson to her daughter, Eliza, Lady Rendel. Transfers: One of several pages removed from the Hobson album for conservation reasons, 1990. This page was was formerly located on p. 121 of the album..

Date: 1852 - 1859

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875

Reference: G-825-4

Description: A circular panorama. Shows the township of Akaroa and hills across the harbour and on the near side from a point between Ohae and Opukutahi, near Wainui. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [far left] Ed.d Norman; [centre] title; [far right] by Edm.d Norman Norman was resident in Lyttelton between the early 1850s and 1859. A view of Akaroa by Norman was described by the Lyttelton Times on 12 July 1856 as having been recently on display in the Lyttelton Town Hall, with drawing by Norman and colouring by Akaroa resident Samuel Charles Farr. The Library's uncoloured drawing is possibly an earlier version of the coloured version shown in Lyttelton in 1856. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Grey ink panorama on 4 sheets pasted on board 225 x 1225 mm (sight)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-004

Description: Two drawings on one page. The upper view is a defensive fort with a surrounding fence, a house to the left, looking south along the foreshore at Akaroa. The lower drawing is a view from the jetty looking back towards two houses on the shore with Mount Berard (Flag Peak) in the background Other Titles - Blockhouse, Blockhaus Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, on buff-coloured sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm

Date: 1843

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: PUBL-0011-08

Description: An extensive view of the Wairarapa Plain with Wairarapa Lake on the left, Rimutaka Range and Tararua Ranges in the background ("the snowy rnage in the distance is the Tararua Mountains"), a wild boar hunt in the foreground, with 5 Maori, 3 Pakeha men and four dogs and a bivouac noted on the plain to the right. Bracken and tree ferns in the foreground and clumps of bush on the plain. The accompanying text reads: This district lies about fifty miles from Wellington by the nearest road. Mr Charles Kettle, one of the Company's Assistant-Surveyors, ascended the Manawatu River, which flows along the other side of the Tararua Mountains, and entered this plain by rounding the low spurs at the extreme right of the view. The forest consists of the largest trees. The open tracts are covered with grass, feern and tutu bushes. Wild hogs abound in this plain. The Ruamahanga flows through the midst of it, and passes through Lake Wairarapa into Palliser Bay. The plain of the Ruamahanga is about sixty miles in length, with an average breadth of twelve miles. There is one small native village at its northern extremity, and another on the beach at Palliser Bay, as well as a whaling station supplied from Wellington. Lake Wairarapa is ten miles long, and from two to three miles broad. Between the lake and the sea several settlers from Wellington have recently squatted with large herds of cattle, which they drove along the sea-coast. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, in 3 sections 238 x 460 mm + 495 mm + 460 mm

Date: 1853

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-065

Description: Physical Description: 2 pencil sketches, 132 x 257 mm and 132 x 272 mm

Date: 1844

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

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

Reference: C-103-002-4

Description: A composite landscape view, partially from the sea, showing Kapiti Island viewed from the west and looking towards the Tararua Range; also Mount Taranaki and Mounts Ruapehu and Tongariro seen from the sea, as well as a view from Otaki Beach looking north along the beach towards Ohau. On the bottom half of the two pages are drawings of people, both European and Maori, including one woman identified as Mata (Martha) and a man identified as Rangiataina. Another figure is a missionary, another a man in a top hat Quantity: 2 drawing(s) comprising one spread. Physical Description: Ink & wash, 126 x 216 and 126 x 216 mm

Date: 1885 - 1891

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

By: Moore, Sophia Augusta, 1862?-1945

Reference: A-181-029

Description: One side shows a watercolour view along a shore line with an old pier or fence stretching into the water from the far right and wooded headlands beyond. The verso shows part of a deck and mast of a boat in the left foreground, and a flat level shoreline in the distance. Probably shows Moreroa, the farm of Sophia and Francis Moore Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - [Title of watercolour] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil drawing, on both sides of sheet 128 x 181 mm.

Date: 1877 - 1879

From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].

By: Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa, 1842-1925; Harral, Horace, active 1862-1876; Graphic (London, England)

Reference: E-881-f-032/033

Description: Nine engravings that appeared in the Graphic, from a trip taken by Miss Outhwaite and probably Gertrude Flora Cooke-Yarborough, in about December 1877. The trip began at Waitangi and went to Taheke, Herd's Point, Waitangi Falls, Rakau Para School, Tautahihi. Mr von Sturmer, Mrs Yarborough and Mr Marriner are mentioned in the handwritten notes. A published account of the journey is in the Graphic (London), 29 March 1879, page 315. Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, pages 32-33 Quantity: 9 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings, sizes varying, with handwritten text in ink and pencil, on double page spread 412 x 610 mm.