Places

Date: 1885

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1879-1888]

Reference: E-035-q-1-036/037

Description: A view from Otago Harbour, looking across at Otago Peninsula and Glenfalloch, with the large house and garden of G G Russell on a rise above the water. A yacht is in the harbour in the right foreground. A preliminary sketch with many colour notes and notes indicating 'rocks', 'clear', 'grass' etc Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream paper across two pages in sketchbook, page size 151 x 240 mm

Date: 1885

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921; Wildey family

Reference: A-231-013

Description: Looking south west from a hill above Okarito, towards a line of houses alongside Okarito Lagoon, the bay and distant hills in the background. A small farmhouse is in the foreground Other Titles - Okarito Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 194 x 325 mm.

Date: 1879

From: Thomas, E A C, 1825- :[Album of a visit to the Motueka area and North Canterbury]

By: Thomas, E A C, 1825-

Reference: E-305-q-053

Description: A fenced property with a view of part of Motueka, showing dwellings including Dr Johnstone's house, trees, hills and snow capped mountains in the background. Other Titles - Motueka Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and crayon, 195 x 226 mm on sheet 297 x 226 mm

Date: 1865 - 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Herd, L (Mrs), active 1978

Reference: B-084-018

Description: Shows a view of the two-storeyed homestead and two other closer single-storey buildings. There are cattle and sheep grazing in the paddock to the right, and bare hills in the background. Identified as Cheviot Hills Station by a previous owner. It is possible that the hills are bare as a result of the painting's being unfinished, with the top of the bush line just sketched in. Cf a more wooded image of Cheviot Hill Station, showing [the same?] buildings from a different angle, at NON-ATL-P-0083 (digitised). There is some doubt about the identification of this house as Cheviot Hills. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 243 x 345 mm (sight)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

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

Reference: E-334-079

Description: Shows a small farmhouse surrounded by a fence on a plain, with cabbage trees especially on a slope to the right and with hills in the background Suisted's station was called Goodwood Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 27 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: [ca 1887-1889]

By: Connolly & Herrmann (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-028386-F

Description: Farmhouse at Longwood Station, Wairarapa. Members of the Pharazyn family stand in the garden. Taken by Connolly & Hermann circa 1887-1889. Shows from left: unidentified, unidentified, Charles Pharazyn, Maud E Pharazyn, possibly Ella Pharazyn, possibly Charles Elgar, possibly Mabel Pharazyn, and Mary Pharazyn. This house was the property of Charles Pharazyn, who lived there for most of his life Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-058

Description: Shows single-storey homestead with verandah in left foreground, with lake and mountains in background. In right foreground, a man with arm raised directs his dogs to round up stock (possibly cattle rather than sheep, but indistinct). There is some fencing across the field between dwelling and stock. Stitched to leaf tipped into sketchbook. E-501-f-059 on verso. Henry Taylor was drowned in the Teremakau River in 1867. This picture may therefore predate 1867. Other Titles - Lake Sheppard Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - (In ink): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monotone watercolour, 185 x 266 mm.

Date: 1896 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-014

Description: Shows `Matara', the homestead of H Harper at Wai Ora, Aramoho, Wanganui, in the 1890s. The Whanganui River runs alongside on the left, the farmhouse and outbuildings are on cleared flat land with a slight indication of a garden, fences and rows of trees. Two horses (or cows) are grazing near the river. Flax in the foreground In 1859, Mary Medley's sister, Laura, married Thomas Henry Harper of Wai Ora, Aramoho, Whanganui. Thomas Henry Harper died in 1873. This view is likely to show the Wai Ora property of his son, Henry Harper, nephew of the artist. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Wanganui H Harper; Recto - beneath image - Matara H Harper Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: 1860

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

Reference: A-235-008

Description: Cleared flat land, with stock fencing to the left, a few bushes, including flax and a small hut in the centre, hills behind Other Titles - J. Allen's outstation, hut & sheep yard. About 5 miles above Waipatika Inscriptions: Mount verso - [in Lavin's hand] J. Allan's outstation hut and sheep yard about five miles above Waipatika Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 124 x 198 mm

Date: 1890

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-030-018

Description: Shows a view of a farmstead and outbuildings, on the higher side of the road in the foreground. A child supervises two cows entering a farm gateway through the mud, for milking, while two other cows await them near a shed. There is a formal garden in front of the house, and the trees around the homestead are pine and yew or cypress. The background hills are partially covered in bush. The small cottage immediately to the right of the main house is probably the one that later became 'Pumpkin Cottage', the centre for a group of artists. According to J M Kenneally's "Upper Hutt; reflections from the past", "The Cotter family initally acquired one of the original 100 acre sections in the valley [and] later purchased a further 880 acres which were sold in 1926 to St Patrick's College". Apart from the modern framer's label, there is as yet no evidence to confirm whether this painting shows a house on the St Pat's site or the earlier site. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C Aubrey / 1890 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 370 x 560 mm (sight) Provenance: Previous owner until 1986: Mr R. Flynn, Petone.

Date: [188-?]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/2-008392-G

Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-187-053

Description: A cluster of rough huts, with a fence in a bare plain close to the harbour. A road runs to the right and a group of four people stands in the distance William Barnard Rhodes was involved with the purchase of lands in Waikanae, Porirua and Wellington from the Te Ati Awa and Ngati Toa tribes. Many of these purchases were later disputed by the tribes concerned. Rhodes had also invested heavily in trading and whaling operations in the Kapiti and Wellington districts as well as Northland. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on toned paper, 95 x 140 mm

Date: 1882

From: Artist unknown :[North Canterbury sketches] 1882-1883

Reference: E-404-005/006

Description: Shows the single-storey house with verandah, near the bank of the lake, with hills behind. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, red ink and sepia wash on double page spread, 90 x 260 mm. Provenance: Donation: David Gibson, Cheltenham, England, 1989.

Date: 1882

From: Artist unknown :[North Canterbury sketches] 1882-1883

Reference: E-404-009

Description: Shows the right hand side of a three-part panorama of the Horsely Down station, this segment showing a flat plain or river valley seen from the high ground of the station. Other Titles - Horsely Down Inscriptions: Album page - Inscription faces image. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash on page 90 x 130 mm.

Date: 1883 - 1890

By: Preston, James, 1834-1898

Reference: A-123-004

Description: Shows a homestead and farm buildings with three horses in the foreground, fences, farm carts, two men attending to another horse, a carcass-hanger and a train in the background. The homestead is surrounded by a hedge of young conifers [possibly the site of the first homestead on Albury Station, South Canterbury]. Little is known about 'Cricklewood Station' or 'Cricklewood House/homestead'. It was presumably situated in the area still known as Cricklewood, in the Mackenzie Country, North-West of Timaru (and the artist lived in this area). It was reputedly burnt down, possibly in the 1880s. This watercolour was given its title by the Curator by reason of a comparison with an almost identical painting by Preston titled 'Cricklewood'. The latter is held by the Canterbury Museum and reproduced in: Oakley, John. "Paintings of Canterbury 1840-1890" (Wellington, 1969) p. 59. There was a large sheep station called Kingsbury alongside Cricklewood Railway Station by 1911, and this view may show Kingsbury Station Dating: trains did not run through the Cricklewood area until 1883, giving an earliest date at which this watercolour could have been done. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Title supplied by Library. Reverend James Preston often undertook journeys by horse around his parish of Geraldine. The area known as Cricklewood is part of the Albury district in South Canterbury. Cricklewood railway station was on the Fairlie to Timaru railway line. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on card 227 x 300 mm Provenance: Preston family.

Date: 1840 - 1859

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: A-035-001

Description: Shows dwelling with what appears to be battened-down thatch roofing. There is a stream on the left, and the house stands in a cleared area of bush. The station was established by Clifford and Weld. First sheep station in New Zealand, established in Wairarapa by Mr C Clifford in 1843. Compare an almost identical copy (but on brown paper) in Mein Smith's hand from the collection of William Swainson, located at A-024-019. This copy appears to include a vegetable garden at the front of the house. Other Titles - Wharekaka Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] / W.M.S. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 115 x 165 mm

Date: 1850 - 1865

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Waghorn, Florence Mary, 1908-1989

Reference: A-035-027

Description: Shows T. P. Russell's farm in the Wairarapa, established 1846-7. The house, surrounded by fencing is in the middle distance, with hills behind. North east Wairarapa, near the Akitio River? Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink, with some watercolour 180 x 260 mm Provenance: Previously in the collection of Russell Mein Smith, Wairarapa.

Date: 1865 - 1875

By: Arden, Francis Hamar, 1841-1899

Reference: A-457-010

Description: A scene at the base of the foothills of Mount Taranaki, showing a simple farmhouse with a smoking chimney in the foreground right, and with a smaller outbuilding behind it. A farmer is seated in the paddock to the viewer's left of the house, amongst a number of sheep, all of which have red markings on their backsides. The house has a low, densely- wooded hill rising behind it, and beyond that, more rain-forested hills stretching towards Mount Taranaki The farmhouse depicted could be the same house situated behind James Robson's farmhouse in B-187-018, but this is uncertain Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 150 x 225 mm (sight)

Date: 1857

Reference: A-306-001

Description: Watercolour of White Island shows view of headland in middle distance, with house and outbuilding at right and cabbage trees and cattle further left. In the distance is a small island. The Forbury homestead was built by William Henry Valpy in the early 1850s. Forbury was the old name for St Clair, and was named after Valpy's birthplace near Reading,Berkshire. Valpy's widow lived in the house with her brother the Reverend Charles Jeffreys and his family from 1852 until they moved to other Valpy properties in and around Oamaru in the 1860s. Inscriptions: Verso - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 160 x 241 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: PUBL-0020-14-1

Description: Shows two men on horseback in left foreground, on the approach to a low bridge over a creek. Along the other side of the creek are toetoe plants. In the distance are three house groupings, with a range of hills beyond. The view looks south towards Petone beach. H. W. Petre's house is on the far right, close to the western Hutt hills, while the other houses shown in the distance are probably along Petone foreshore. Petre later moved further north in the Hutt Valley and built "Woburn". Moreing's Creek enters the Hutt River from the west. Other Titles - Moreings Creek Petone, Honourable The Library holds the original watercolour on which this engraving is based at B-031-002, with Brees' title Petoni. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving 72 x 37 mm, on sheet 365 x 261 mm.