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Date: 1849

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; Standidge & Company; Trelawney Saunders Ltd; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: D-016-010

Description: View looking out to the harbour, a fenced ploughed area to the left, framed by a tree, a man reclining on two felled tree trunks and others standing, talking, cows, a dog, huts and houses closer to the water's edge on the right and several ships in the harbour. Original pencil drawing with same title, identifying "Heyward's Point, Tairoa's Head, Custom House" (held at C-012-003) Backed with paper and linen Extended Title - Published and sold by Trelawney Saunders [1849? Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph 396 x 754 mm on sheet 603 x 880 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull. Ordered in a letter to Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 20 April 1896, for 42 shillings

Date: 1890 - 1900

By: Kirkwood, Henry William, 1854-1925; McKenzie, Joan Christie, 1918-1995; Rawson, Joan Whiteley, 1910-1992

Reference: G-234

Description: Shows road in foreground leading off into distance, with bushcovered hill in right background. On the road a cowherd follows three cows walking away to background. Dated 1890s on the basis that Kirwood exhibited with the NZ Academy of Fine Arts from 1889 to 1895. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - HWK (in red paint); Verso - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 oil(s) framed.. Physical Description: Oil, 222 x 150 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Miss Joan Whitely Rawson.

Date: October 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-012

Description: A road in the foreground, fences and paddocks, cows grazing and further grazing animals in the middle distance. In the centre, a church, with a two-storied house (the Waimate Mission Station) and other smaller buildings to its left. Two small houses beyond a clump of bush to the right. In the background, a steep hill (Pukenui or Puke Nui) with either cultivated land or a pa on one side A copy of Cyprian Bridge's watercolour of the same scene, held at A-079-036 Identification: the hill referred to by the artist as Poka Mie is a volcanic cone, Puke Nui, now known as Te Ahuahu Other Titles - Pukenui Puke Nui Waimate North Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash and watercolour, 252 x 364 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: 1865

By: Johnston, John Tremenhere, active 1850s-1860s

Reference: B-079-022

Description: Shows the camp on the north bank of the river, with cows in foreground, and two soldiers, one apparently sketching, perhaps a self-portrait. The masts of three ships can be seen in the port area and there are futher military tents on the south bank of the river. Supplied title Attribution based on style and information from donor The camp was close to the earlier site of Waimate Pa, which was located at the top of the same bluff - compare two drawings by Charles Heaphy from 1839 - 'Waimate Pa, 1839' (A-164-008) and 'View on the Patea River, Cooks Straits' (A-146-004); also '[Album of an officer]. Left bank redoubt, R. Patea, 1865 3 May' (A-277-021). The redoubt on the south bank of the Patea, known as Dawson's Redoubt, was completed in February 1865 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 190 x 493 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.

Reference: PUBL-0011-09-3

Description: The third and right-hand section of a three part panoramic view of New Plymouth, shortly after its establishment as a New Zealand Company settlement. Shows the South end of the town and the Sugar Loaf Islands. Named features are "Mr Rundell['s house]. Mr Newland. Mr Shepherd. Mr Lewthwaite. Labourers Residences commonly called Devonport. Pare Tutu. Motu-o-Mahanga or Island of Flight. Moturao or Tall Island 200 feet high. The accompanying text reads: The spectator stands with his back to the sea, in the garden of the [New Zealand or Plymouth] Company's agent. There is only an open Roadstead [Harbour] here, and the colonists are essentially agricultural. Surf-boats, however, and excellent moorings, provided by the Company, facilitate the landing of passengers and goods. Mount Egmont is distant about fifteen miles. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 237 x 465 mm

Date: 1841 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-024-004

Description: Petone with the Eastern Hills in the background, flax bushes and two wind-formed bent trees and two cows in the foreground. In the middle distance is a raupo whare with a conical thatched roof Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 4.5 x 6.5 ins

Date: 1845

By: Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898

Reference: A-252-019

Description: View from above Saltwater Creek. The low hill with buildings on the right is Church Hill, with the fortifications around the emigration barracks (pre-fabricated) where Nelson Cathedral now stands. Just below the hill, in Nile Street, is the Bishop's School (still standing). Trafalgar Street, the main street, runs down from Church Hill to the left, through the buildings that line it. The flat gap near the hill is where Hardy Street now runs across Trafalgar Street; the next, one block further left, is now Bridge Street. In the far left centre are the watermill and the brewery, the first in New Zealand, exporting beer to Wellington and Auckland. Two male travellers, one with a swag, are in the foreground. A woman is pursuing three cows in right foreground. A watercolour version of this drawing, titled Nelson dated 27 October 1845, is held in a private collection: negative 23060 1/2. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Drawn by F.D.B.; Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing pasted on card : pencil ; image 197 x 269 mm on card 220 x 290 mm

Date: 1845

From: Thomson, Arthur Saunders, 1817?-1860 :The story of New Zealand (London, John Murray, 1859).

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: PUBL-0144-1-330

Description: Flax bushes in the foreground and three standing Maori; cows fenced in on the left. In the middle distance on the left, a church and a cluster of buildings beyond a fenced area on a low hill. Another two buildings on the right, possibly barns with a distinctive hill beyond Derived from Cyprian Bridge's watercolour View of the Waimati (missionary station) and Poka Mie hill, 1845 (A-079-036) Extended Title - From: Thomson, A. S. The story of New Zealand. (London, John Murray, 1859), volume 1, p. 330 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 59 x 84 mm

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-084-019

Description: The original watercolour on which the lithograph "Hokitika River" is based (Barraud's "New Zealand graphic and descriptive", London 1877), shows a view of the Hokitika River. Shows two men with their equipment, standing in the right foreground, on the near bank of the Hokitika River, with snowy mountain ranges in the background. There are several cows on the sandy flats on the opposite bank of the river. The men may be drinking or smoking. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signature and date] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 250 x 353 mm. Provenance: Previously in the collection of the late Adrienne Jarvis of Auckland, and earlier of Hokitika Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1889

From: Wakefield, Edward 1845-1924 :New Zealand illustrated. The story of New Zealand and descriptions of its cities and towns by Edward Wakefield; also (by various writers) the natural wonders of New Zealand (past and present). Wanganui. A. D. Willis, 1889.

Reference: PUBL-0019-04

Description: An extensive view of the city of Wanganui from the south bank of the River, with houses and gardens in the foreground, a bridge and the civic buildings houses and churches. Mount Taranaki can be seen in the distance to the left and Ruapehu to the right. Cows in a paddock on the left and several boats in the river Probably based on a photograph Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 167 x 370 mm

Date: 1850 - 1860

From: [Fox, William] 1812-1893 :[Russell from Paihia. ca 1850]

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-005

Description: View mostly of the Paihia area at the waterfront facing east, with cows grazing beneath a large tree to the right, a beach with several people and a canoe and a sailing ship on the water beyond. The fifth section of a 5-part panorama Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 250 x 305 mm

Date: 1843 - 1851

By: Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867; Burnand, William Henry, active 1843-1850s; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-195-017

Description: A naive watercolour of the Deans brothers' farmhouse and outbuildings, viewed from across the "Avon or Shakspear River", with horses, cows and sheep in the foreground, a log bridge, a man (presumably one of the Deans brothers) with a dog under a tree. The house is red, with a second storey with dormer window, a rain barrel below the downpipe from the roof. The outbuildings to the right of the house appear to be thatched stables, are open at the front and shelter a horse and three carts. Trees are roughly indicated behind the house. On the verso are holograph notes about Banks' Peninsula, copied from Duppa, Daniels [?] and Tyrell and from Captain [William Mein] Smith about Port Cooper (Lyttelton) and its merits for settlement versus those of Akaroa. Dating: William Deans was drowned in 1851, a fact that is not mentioned here, suggesting, along with the general tone of the notes, that this drawing may have been completed before then, although the two-storied building on the site was not completed until 1856. Other material from the same source was produced about 1850 or 1851. William Mein Smith's report was completed about 1843. The page has been removed from a notebook. The author of the notes (and artist) appears to be somebody associated with the Canterbury Association. The first two-storied house at Deans' property was built in 1856, when Jane Deans built a larger house on the site in preparation for the arrival of her brother and his family. The house shown here may be the 1856 north-east section, the earliest part of modern Riccarton House. Other sections were added in 1874 and 1900, resulting in a much larger building. One possible artist is John Henry Cridland, whose other drawings from the same source are quite naive. However another drawing by him of the Deans' property (neg MNZ 1215 1/4 - 'Riccarton, November 1850' - Hocken Library) is very different in style from this one. Identification: The building shown appears to be a roughly-drawn version of the first two-storied house on the site, completed in 1856. Other drawings of the same building appear as Plate 5 and Plate 14 (the latter by Robert Park) in Pioneers on Port Cooper Plains. The Deans family of Riccarton and Homebush by John Deans (Christchurch, 1964). Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [title in ink as above, with "only 50 Godley" in pencil in another hand]; Recto - centre right - [in river, in pencil]: Avon or Shakspear River.; Verso - [in ink, page covered in text] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watecolour on laid paper 310 x 198 mm Provenance: Originally tipped in to a volume of The New Zealand Journal, ca 1852, from Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull's collection. Prior to acquisition by Alexander Turnbull the volumes had belonged to W H Burnand.

Date: 1889

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-030-023

Description: View from the south end of Oriental Bay looking north toward Wellington, showing rowing boat, boat-sheds, cows in field, houses, Oriental Parade and Oriental Terrace The large red house on the hill, upper left, was known as 'Thomas's Folly' and was built of Australian hardwood by Sir Godfrey John Thomas, half-brother to Sir George Grey, then later owned by Alfred Maurice Lewis of Thompson Lewis. The wood used for this house was said to have been left over from the Government Buildings in Lambton Quay. The large white house, also on the left, but lower, in Wilkinson Street (leading to Grass Street), was first owned by a Mr Wilkinson. The single-storey house on the corner of Hay Street was owned by a Mr Laurence Arcus. Painting has been trimmed. Supplied title Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [C.A]ubrey Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 249 x 499 mm on sheet 306 x 543 mm

Date: 1879

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Smith, Dennison Urban, -1892

Reference: C-126-010

Description: Shows the settlement at Bravo Island in Paterson Inlet, with the farm of Dennison Urban ("Yankee") Smith at extreme left, and the house of the Portuguese whaler Manuel Gomez in the centre with three figures in the doorway. There is cleared land in foreground, cows at pasture, a boatshed (to the left of Smith's beached boat - the "Bravo"), a cowshed at the extreme right, a sandspit at the extreme right beside the inlet in the right background. Two clay cliffs on the far bank are reflected in the water. The details listed are taken from John Hall-Jones "Stewart Island explored" 1994 - ATL has at NZ&P 993.1 HAL 1994. 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. Painting made by Aubrey in return for hospitality of the Smith family. For more information about "Yankee" Smith, see AT 3/1/2, 1 July 1976. Other Titles - River settlement Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. Aubrey 1879 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 340 x 515 mm. Provenance: Previously sold at auction by Dennison Smith, a direct descendant of Yankee Smith, at Devereux and Culley's auction rooms, Mt Eden, in 1983. Prior to that, the work had been in the family of Yankee Smith on Stewart Island. The painting had been given to Yankee Smith by the artist in return for hospitality

Date: 1861

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

Reference: G-670

Description: Shows ships in harbour, houses, and a man driving cows on a hillside path at right. From Brooklyn looking across Te Aro and the harbour to the Hutt Valley. At left is a Maori wood-gatherer. Tree in left foreground has the creeper kie kie growing on it. A tree has been felled in centre foreground, and there is a cabbage tree at right. Upper Willis Street runs down to Clay Point, at the junction of the present Willis Street and Lambton Quay. Thorndon Flat lies beyond ending at Pipitea Point. Colour photolithograph of this original was reproduced for "The Barraud prints" published by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board in 1967. The photolithograph was entitled: "Wellington from Brooklyn - across Te Aro and Thorndon, 1861". Other Titles - Wellington from Brooklyn - across Te Aro and Thorndon, 1861 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 443 x 1370 mm Processing information: Reframed in 1986. The original frame has been retained.

Date: 1870

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Scrymgeour, William John Tyndal, 1922?-; Grey, George (Sir), 1812-1898

Reference: D-022-007

Description: View from a low hill of an extensive river plain surrounded by hills, with Lake Coleridge and snow-clad mountains in the background and a river to the left. Sheep are grazing on the lower hills to the right and on the flat valley. In the far left foreground is a road, with a dray being pulled by horses towards the station. In the centre left, there are farm buildings with a dray and horses, and a haystack surrounded by fences. In the centre is the homestead, surrounded by trees, with an older building, possibly the original homestead on the lower slopes of the hills to the right of the homestead. Lake Coleridge Station was originally purchased by A.C.Barker and others in 1855. In 1860 it was jointly owned by George Arthur Emilius Ross and Charles John Harper. At the date of this painting, Harper was the sole owner. There is now a hydro station occupying part of the land shown in the picture. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D.Barraud. 1870 The Library holds an almost identical second copy of this work at C-033-005 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white 457 x 784 mm Provenance: Hung, with a view of Wellington from Kelburn, 1870 (D-022-006) in Government House, Wellington, during the governorship of Sir George Grey. Sold at auction in Wellington to the vendor's grandfather, also a Mr Scrymgeour (or Scrimgeour) in the 1880s or 1890s. Mr Scrymgeour migrated to Australia in the early 1900s to Goondawindi Station. The paintings passed to his son (died 1968) then to his grandson, William John Tyndal Scrymgeour, born ca 1922, of "Arran", Warwick, Queensland.

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

Date: [late 1890s]

By: Mattingley, E C, active 1890; Woodhouse, Airini Elizabeth, 1896-1989

Reference: 1/2-025436-F

Description: Group alongside dairy cows, Temuka, late 1890s. Shows a woman milking, milk pails and milk cans. Photograph taken by E C Mattingley. Note on back of file print reads: "Town milk supply,, Temuka, late 1890's" Inscriptions: Underneath original print - E C Mattingley Photo Temuka Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1862

By: Stack, Frederick Rice, -1873; Day & Son (Firm); Thomas, Beatrice Rosemary, 1911-1996

Reference: C-060-019

Description: Lake Pupuke in the right foreground, Waitemata Harbour on the left, divided by a tongue of land on which sheep and cattle are grazing. A horseman with his whip and a dog is mustering a bull and several cows on the right. There are swans on Lake Pupuke. In the distance, the church spires of Auckland City can be seen Extended Title - Plate from: Stack, F R. Views in the province of Auckland (London, 1862). Plate 3. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-col., image, 200 x 404 mm on sheet 358 x 564 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Beatrice Thomas, Roseneath, 1984