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Date: 1848

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

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

Reference: E-334-157

Description: Shows a Maori man sitting on a beach, possibly near the head of Lyttelton Harbour, looking towards Adderley Head and the hills of Port Levy. There is a flax plant on the left. The location of George Rhodes' station at Purau, across Lyttelton Harbour, is indicated Inscriptions: Recto - Top of page: Aug 30 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Ingle, M A (Mr), fl 1967 :Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-37-09

Description: Photograph of a Maori woman seated on the ground wearing a flax cloak. Standing beside her is a Maori man wearing a full-length tag cloak. The couple are posing outside in an area surrounded by flax bushes. Photographed by Burton Bros, ca 1880s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3794 - Winete Paranihi & Kuini - Papakai, King Country. Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.5 x 20.2 cm on mount 22.5 x 29 cm

Date: 1856

From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-004

Description: View looking across to the south-west of Evan's Bay with Cook Strait beyond, a schooner on the water and bush, including a rata, cabbage trees, a tree-fern and flax in the foreground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 143 x 229 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Roberts, George J :One hundred and eight photographs of the West Coast Region by photographers George J Roberts and A P Harper

Reference: PAColl-3412-1-01

Description: Mahinapua Creek surrounded by native forest, West Coast, New Zealand, photographed by either George Roberts or Arthur Paul Harper in about 1890. Inscriptions: Verso - South Creek, L. Mahinapua Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15.2 x 10.7 cm

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-533

Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm

Date: 1861 - 1871

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

Reference: E-501-f-004

Description: Shows dog(?) and cattle in river at right, high rolling country with flax and cabbage trees, and the mountains near the Rakaia Gorge in the distance. Hurt farmed near the Selwyn River from about 1861. He was listed in the Rakaia electorate for 1872-73. Other Titles - Rakaia Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 139 x 214 mm.

Date: 1852

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 1] 1851-1852

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

Reference: E-332-072

Description: Shows a view looking down from slightly above, on four farm buildings with thatched roofs and sod chimneys. There is flax in the foreground, and the gorge of the river can be seen in the left middle distance. The tail of a dog called Harry is visible in the right foreground (his body being out of frame). Other Titles - Kakaho Gorge Other Titles - Waiaukarua Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 182 x 229 mm.

Date: 1882

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :[Journey to New Zealand and the attempt on Mount Cook, November 1881 to March 1882, and] Dodging about Switzerland in 1879.

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919

Reference: E-581-q-006-2

Description: The three men in Green's party chopping and hauling at large tree branches for the construction of a log bridge. They are beside a stream, with flax at the river's edge. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 114 x 91 mm

Date: 1869

By: Fraser, I T B, active 1863-1890s; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-196-014

Description: Looking across a river towards mountains. A small Maori canoe is on the river, with flax, cabbage trees and other bush on both sides Originally catalogued by the Library as being painted by J B Fraser, a possible interpretation of the artist's monogram. The annotations on the back were believed to be signed by surveyor Malcolm Fraser, from a reading of the illegible first name. However the writing, and style of drawing and painting match those of Captain I T B Fraser, artist of a group of sketches of the war in Waikato about 1864, Library reference number E-571-q. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - signed with initials in a monogram and date in red brushpoint, on a rock, lower left. Also verso, in pencil: Title: Between Cashels Station and Shortland, Thames Goldfields, about 23 miles up the Ohinemuri River by water: after you leave the bend by a place called Purri Purri you will see the same on the right. Hard going up the Ohinemuri River. New Zealand. [signed, first word illegibly] Fraser Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 154 x 243 mm

Date: 1875

From: Gully, John, 1819-1888 :New Zealand scenery chomolithographed after original water-color drawings by John Gully with descriptive letterpress by Dr Julius von Haast. Dunedin, Henry Wise & Company ; London Marcus Ward & Co., 1877

Reference: PUBL-0010-12

Description: A fenced whare with canoes in the water below it in the right foreground, European houses and a church on both sides of the river in the middle distance and five people swimming in the river. Flax, toetoe and other low plants in the foreground and bush-clad hills in the distance Possibly shows Pipiriki. In the accompanying notes to this print Gully states: On the right of the picture, overlooking an old Indian corn garden a large native house, surrounded by palisades is visible ... further up ... the native church, with a few houses and the burial ground ... On the opposite side the remains of a small native settlement ... The two kinds of canoe used by the natives are seen on the river - the regular river canoe with a sharp prow, and the large and more ornamental one, the pitau, commonly used for coasting purposes in both islands Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 304 x 376 mm

Date: 1859

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886; Hutton, Maia Thomas, 1918-1989

Reference: C-003-001

Description: Nine-part panorama, forming a complete circle, of the view from the parsonage attached to St James' Anglican Church, Lower Hutt. The parsonage itself is shown, along with surrounding houses and farms, cleared land, bush and the encompassing hills. There are cows, horses and a man using a plough pulled by two horses Extended Title - South Eastern part of Valley, looking towards Wellington. The distant hills are those lying behind Wellington. Western boundary of hills. St James Parsonage Hutt. Tararua Range in distance, north west end of valley. Hills forming eastern boundary of the valley. Inscriptions: Verso - Most sections have notes in ink as transcribed under title and additional title above Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in 9 sections with linen hinges on verso. Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil in nine sections (mounted in 3 groups of 3) 125 x 159 mm (whole panorama); 125 x 530 mm (each strip)

Date: 1844

By: Drake, James Charles, 1821-1865?; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-108-009

Description: View into the valley of the Pelorus River, with flaxes growing on rocks on the left, bush-clad islands with the occasional cabbage tree below, amongst the meanderings of the river. One of series of 8 drawings; see A108/007, "View of the Moketap ..." for information Other Titles - bearing Inscriptions: At head of drawing: "No. 3" (apparently numbered out of sequence) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink 174 x 259 mm

Date: 1855

Reference: A-034-024

Description: Shows two men camped under trees at foot of high bare hills. There are flax bushes and trees on the plain at the base of the hills. The scene is likely to be in south Wairarapa, since the artist is not known to have visited the better-known Kawakawa in the Bay of Islands Other Titles - Wairarapa Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 178 x 252 mm trimmed

Date: 1875

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: B-163-007

Description: Shows a stretch of the Wanganui River at Pipiriki, with a wooden fence (or platform) and whare at the far right. Two canoes are pulled up on to the bank in the centre foreground (one with a ornate carved prow), and there is a waka with four figures in it, in the middle of the river. Five figure are bathing in the river off a shallow point. On the bank at the left are further huts and fences or raised platforms. There is a bird, possibly a kingfisher, on a branch in the left foreground, and flax and other plants in the foreground. The original for the chromolithograph titled 'Up-river scene, Wanganui, Wellington' in Gully's book 'New Zealand scenery' (Dunedin, Henry Wise, 1877). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J Gully / 1875 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 310 x 384 mm.

Date: 1845

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Johnson, John (Dr), 1794-1848

Reference: E-216-f-085

Description: Shows the front of a small single-storey cottage with thatched roof and a verandah supported by five pillars. The cottage has two or three front windows and a front door, two chimneys and a lean-to, with a picket fence running from the house on both sides. A circular garden bed is in front and a cabbage tree, flax and another plant, possibly a fern, are to the right The Rev. Dr Robert Maunsell lived in this raupo cottage from 1838 to 1843. It was superseded by a 6-room wooden dwelling that burned down after three weeks' occupation. Maunsell and his wife were hosts to Governor Hobson in March 1842, with Chief Justice Martin, Abel Best and Edward Shortland also present. Dr Johnson was away from New Zealand between November 1844 and November 1846. He must have made this drawing from an earlier version or possibly initialled and dated it when he gave it to Mrs Hobson in England Other Titles - Maraetai Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - J. J. 1845 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on yellow embossed wove paper, 63 x 100 mm (image) on sheet 82 x 225 mm

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: 1865 - 1875

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook

Reference: E-208-q-015

Description: Looking south along the shoreline north of Kaikoura towards the Peninsula. There are telegraph poles to the right, amongst flax bushes and grass, with the steep hills of the area rising on the far right Other Titles - Kaikoura Peninsula Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 165 x 254 mm

Date: 1856

From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-017

Description: A view from Tinakori Hill, looking down over the houses of Wadestown and across Wellington Harbour towards the snow-clad Tararua Range. A Maori couple with a baby on the woman's back are in the foreground, and there are sailing ships and a canoe on the harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title, dates, initials in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white, 179 x 270 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

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: 1852

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

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-034-1

Description: Two small Maori figures standing on a road, probably Tory Street or nearby, with the harbour in the background, flax on either side of the road. On the right can be seen a windmill (probably Simmonds' and Hoggard's flourmill) and the lower slopes of Mount Victoria Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 105 x 135 mm