Places

Date: 1887

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-433-005

Description: Nine scenes in one engraving showing: 1. "Shooting" a native; an anxious moment [a European photographer photographs apprehensive Maori] 2. Terrified they take to their heels [photographed subjects take fright] 3. Reciprocity [a Maori girl looks back through the lens at the photographer] 4. Our mode of progression over rocks and shallows [A waka is steered through rocks by punters on board and guides in the water] 5. Taitua our helmsman in full dress [Maori man wears European hat and jacket and grass skirt] 6. The largest whare in the settlement [A Maori indicates a small hut to two European travellers] 7. Tangarakau, a hundred miles up the Wanganui River [Scenic view of the river in a narrow area] 8. Mouton [Moutoa] Island, the scene of battle between friendly and hostile natives 9. Ngatai, chief of the Ngatiawa Tribe, our host at Taumarunui [Head and shoulders frontal portrait of a bearded Maori] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on page 397 x 297 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, May 2010.

Date: 1863

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0033-1863-505

Description: Four men climbing a narrow path amongst rocky mountains, carrying picks, shovels, billys, tents and other baggage. Possibly a scene in Central Otago. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving

Date: 1863

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0033-1863-212

Description: Shows a burning Maori redoubt in the centre, with British troops in the foreground. Mount Taranaki is in the background to the south. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 206 x 330 mm.

Date: 1865 - 1866

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: PUBL-0033-1866-189

Description: Interior view of the pa, with a group of Maori men around a fire in the foreground, two holding spears and two with guns, and other small groups standing and seated in the background near dwellings. A flagpole or signal pole in the background Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 250 x 180 mm

Date: 1863 - 1864

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898; Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Baillie, Herbert, 1863-1941

Reference: A-110-006

Description: View along and around a bend in the river with the Pioneer in the centre, with smoke from its guns, and gunsmoke or fire from the left shore, either being attacked or attacking. Trees in the foreground and the river shown heavily bushed to its edges except where the Maori position is indicated. Based on a drawing by E A Williams The wood engraving of which this is a photograph was published in Illustrated London news, vol 44, p.93, January 1864. Library holds the original volume in question. Herbert Baillie presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society, 21 October 1919, published in Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Vol 53, 1921, p 29-36: 'The first New Zealand Navy; with some episodes of the Maori War in connection with the British Navy'. The article was illustrated with this image, along with others of gunboats in used on the Waikato River, 1863-1864 Other Titles - gunboat Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of wood engraving pasted on card 148 x 230 mm

Date: 1865

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0033-1865-352-2

Description: Four European men crossing a swift-flowing river at thigh height. The four are holding a long pole in front of them. All have small packs on their shoulders According to the accompanying article, the image shows a Maori method of river crossing, using a tree trunk. The method was adopted by miners going to the West Coast Other Titles - Taramakau Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 150 x 230 mm

Date: 1867 - 1864

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: PUBL-0033-1867-027

Description: A Maori man and two women seated outside a carved gateway and the palisade of Maketu Pal, near Tauranga. The woman in the white skirt has been identified as Hineaturama, Phillip Tapsell's third wife. The seated man with the spear to the right is Hikaroa. The dog in the foreground was sent from Denmark to Philip Tapsell in New Zealand by his brother. It was a Dutch barge dog. The gate shown in this view is now in the Vienna Museum. Robley's watercolour on which this wood engraving is based is in the Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust Museum, accession number MMC 808. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving

Date: 1879

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0033-1879-001

Description: The exterior of the Kaitangata mine with mine machinery and structures, smoke rising from several points, and crowds of people outside the entrance. Coal trucks to the left and tall chimneys to the right Physical Description: Wood engraving

Date: 1867 - 1868

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0033-1868-321

Description: View from the shore showing Arrow (Fifeshire) Rock and the Boulder Bank behind it, a wharf to the right and wharf sheds, several small boats in the harbour Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving

Date: 1865 - 1866

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: E-372-f-019-1

Description: Interior view of the pa, with a group of Maori men around a fire in the foreground, two holding spears and two with guns, and other small groups standing and seated in the background near dwellings. A flagpole or signal pole in the background Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 48, 1866, p. 189 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Initials M J Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 250 x 180 mm

Date: 1865

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Levy, Samuel Abraham, active 1840s-1870s; Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: E-372-f-007-1

Description: A view from across a river of a church, the vicarage and the tree where C. S. Volkner was hanged. Several canoes in the river in the foreground. An article in the Daily Southern Cross of 4 April 1865, page 4, refers to the display in Auckland of 'three pencilled views of opotiki - the scene of the recent brutal murder of the Rev Mr C S Volkner ... The sketches have been taken by Mr S A Levy...' Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Volume 47, July 1865, p. 81 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 142 x 235 mm (image slightly trimmed)

Date: 1863 - 1864

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0033-1864-216-2

Description: Shows an event that occurred in 1863, Maori prisoners waiting to be place on board the H M S Pioneer. The drawing is inaccurate in that the Pioneer was a paddlesteamer, and the paddle is not shown here. In fact it actually shows the "Corio" steamer. Three issues later, the Illustrated London news acknowledged this mistake. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 100 x 240 mm.

Date: 1863

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0033-1863-476

Description: Looking down from above onto a road carved out through dense bush, with cavalry and infantry marching along it. Large trunks from the cleared bush in the foreground The Library holds another version of this view at A-134-011, from a source other than the Illustrated London news Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 240 mm

Date: 1864

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-433-002

Description: The top image shows a view of the graves of Lieut-Col. Booth and officers and men of the 43rd Regt, killed at Tauranga. Mount Maunganui in background, with ships Esk, Harrier and Jason in harbour. Based on a drawing by E A Williams. The lower images shows British troops in the foreground behind trees, and in a trench leading up towards a hilltop pa, where a British flag can be seen flying. The smoke of gunfire can be seen from several points around the pa. Other Titles - Pa Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on page 398 x 274 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, May 2010.

Date: 1869

By: Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-078-004

Description: A view from the hill across the river, looking down on the town, with its streets and houses. Based on a wood engraving in The Illustrated London news, 17 April 1869 p. 404, which, in turn, was based on a photograph supplied by the Crown Lands' Office, Wellington Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 152 x 351 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull in 1914 from English dealer Albert Berthel, in Richmond, Surrey.

Date: 1852 - 1853

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: PUBL-0033-1853-0479

Description: A Maori horse-race with many participants and spectators on the Ruamahanga Plain. Based on a watercolour by John Pearse "Races held in the Wairarapa "Waidrop" Plains in 1852" in his sketchbook, E-455-f-070. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 111 x 210 mm

Date: 1864

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-438-009

Description: Shows the earthworks at Rangiriri Pa, with soldiers wandering about the site. One soldier is sitting in the foreground with his pack box. Other Titles - Rangiriri Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Black and white engraving on cropped page, 158 x 277 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, July 2010.

Date: 1863

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

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Nairn, Francis Edward, 1819?-1910

Reference: C-103-103-1

Description: View from quartz rocks at a high standpoint with two goldminers with swags and tools moving towards the towns. Below lies, 'Hartley or lower town' (now Alexandra) at the junction of the Clutha and Manuherikia Rivers, and in the distance 'Dunstan or upper town' (Clyde) Engraving from this sketch published in: Illustrated London News, 14 Nov., 1863 Other Titles - This country is covered with rocks of mica with this view of the quartz running through Other Titles - Clyde, Alexandra Extended Title - In: Mantell, W B D Sketchbook (now disbound) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - signature and 1863; also bottom right, 'this countruy is covered with rocks of mica...' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and wash sketch, 229 x 355 mm

Date: 1850

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0033-1850-001

Description: A view from Mount Evans looking north across Lyttelton Harbour towards Godley Head and Pegasus Bay with the Southern Alps in the distance. Several ships are in the harbour and at sea Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving

Date: 1880

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-433-003

Description: Three scenes in one engraving showing the Orakei Maori Parliament of 1879. The top inset scene is of a Maori village on a curved shoreline at Orakei. The middle image shows an interior scene of the parliament at Orakei, with two Maori men in European dress talking at the front and an audience of Maori, with two European scribes. The lowest image shows an outdoor area surrounded by buildings and tents, with Maori seated in small groups on the ground. This scene is presumed to be at the parliament area. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on page 404 x 274 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, May 2010.