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Date: 1842 - 1843

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

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-216-f-015

Description: Shows a view looking across bracken, to the back of the first Government House (built 1842, burnt 1848), with the Waitemata and North Head in the background. There is a sailing ship in the right distance, and a waka with two triangular sails on the harbour. Two Maori sit in the bracken, and their is a goat grazing in the left foreground. In the right centre background is a raised storehouse (?), and there is a clump of flax in the right foreground. The hill above Devonport has a flagstaff. Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, on paper, 85 x 153 mm. Provenance: Part of Mrs Hobson's album. The album was passed by Eliza Hobson to her daughter, Eliza, Lady Rendel.

Date: 1842

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-011

Description: Shows Maori canoes, probably in Auckland district, looking along the bluffs at the foreshore towards the town in the middle distance. The sterns of three different canoes can be seen, with two men standing alongside. To the right is a larger seated group at a makeshift camp with a cloak draped over branches for shelter and firewood on the ground Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen and sepia wash 179 x 235 mm

Date: 1844

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-030/031

Description: Government House Auckland, residence of Eliza Hobson and children Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen and sepia wash 83 x 380 mm

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-001

Description: Four canoes pulled up on a beach, one shown with a figurehead and with three Maori men seated in it. To the left are two small cottages, one of raupo, the other with a window, front door and bench outside, on which a man is seated. Both cottages have chimneys. Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Other Titles - Onehunga, Manukau Probably sketched at the beginning of Ashworth's trip up the Waikato & Waipa rivers in December 1843 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink 151 x 155 mm

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-021

Description: A panoramic view of the harbour from near the Heads, looking towards the North Head. There are no houses visible Awitu in the 1840s when this watercolour was done referred to the whole southern head at the entrance to Manukau Harbour. In addition, the Maori village of Awhitu was on the coast, inside the Heads Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Other Titles - Manukau Harbour, Awhitu Sketched on Ashworth's trip to the Waikato, December 1843 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 83 X 381 mm

Date: 1844

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-026

Description: Looking along a beach towards cliffs and a rocky point. On the left is a fence with a house identified as 'Mr Porters'. Shows the home of W. Field Porter at St Heliers The drawing occupies the left side of a double-page spread and continues onto the right. On the far right (page 27) is 'The Roman Catholic Cathedral and establishment, Sydney'. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and sepia wash 136 x 205 mm

Date: 1844

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-024

Description: A scene at St Heliers, close to the shore of the Waitemata Harbour, with Rangitoto Island visible in the background. In the foreground is a thatched raupo dwelling, with a European man outside, and part of a garden around it. Shows the property of James Baber, an Auckland architect Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink 140 x 217 mm

Date: 1843

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-009

Description: Shows St Paul's Church on the skyline, its spire not yet built, a cluster of houses, Freeman's Bay in the centre with houses along the waterfront, two men and upturned rowboats beside a headland in the foreground. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink, 140 x 213 mm

Date: 1844

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-028/029

Description: Two images occupying a double page spread. On the left is a view along the coastline with houses on the flat land near the shore, bush and a large cabbage tree on the right. Mr Newmans, W. Spain Esq., The Bastion, Signal Mt. of Auckland Harbour and North Shore are identified. The men's names are associated with two houses shown in the foreground, 'The bastion' is Bastion Rock at the foot of a headland in the middle distance and Signal Mount is Mount Victoria, on the North Shore. On the right, occupying two thirds of the right-hand page is 'Harbour Shore', with four Maori seated with three dogs beneath a large pohutukawa tree, probably close to Auckland Harbour Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and sepia wash 136 x 250 mm

Date: 1842

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-013

Description: View looking along the beachline to the left with trees and a bank, the silhouette of Rangitoto in the background Another sketch in the sky area of a headland is marked 'Whitipaku' or possibly 'White....' Inscriptions: Recto - top right - title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 190 x 310 mm

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-015

Description: Ashworth's house in Auckland designed and built by himself, probably shown in 1843. The house is two-storied, wooden, with a double gable and has a small outhouse, possibly the privy, at the end of a high surrounding wooden fence. Several other houses are visible in the background[1843?] Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Other Titles - Built and drew [translation] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen and sepia wash 110 x 227 mm

Date: 1843 - 1844

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-041

Description: A Roman Catholic priest in soutane and saturno, his back to the viewer, standing alongside Maori members of his flock in a New Zealand (probably Auckland) bush setting. Two of the men are wearing European clothing including hats, one of them smoking a pipe. The other five, including a child, are in Maori dress. A small dog is standing to the left of the priest Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink 135 x 209 mm

Date: 1844

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-020

Description: A front view of a single-storeyed house with a path leading through a garden to the front door. To the left, a man stands alongside a seated dog, near a large barrel. Tree, possibly manuka or kanuka, surround the house. The house is that of James Baber, an architect Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and sepia wash 140 x 217 mm

Date: 1843 - 1844

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896; Hobson, Eliza Ann, 1811?-1876

Reference: A-275-007

Description: Auckland City from the hills behind the city, with a flax bush to the right and three Maori viewing the scene from the fern on the left. A stream in the middle ground (now the site of Queen Street) leads down to the town with Government House shown in the fenced area in the centre right and St Paul's Church silhouetted against Mt Victoria across the harbour. The cluster of buildings closest to the viewer at the lowest point in the valley is the Queen Street gaol, excavated in 1987 (see TL13/14/1 8/3/91). Rangitoto is shown in the background and there are several ships in the harbour. The scene is shown at sunset. Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. A preliminary pencil drawing for this watercolour is held at A-208-018. The title of the watercolour is taken from the title of the pencil drawing, which shows St Paul's without its tower, although a tentative tower is lightly sketched in. The drawing would be likely to have been executed during 1843 and no later than January 1844, when Ashworth departed New Zealand for Hong Kong. The watercolour may have been completed while Ashworth was in New Zealand, with the putative tower added; or he may have worked from his pencil sketch at a slightly later date. Several of the sketches in the Hobson album were completed after Mrs Hobson left New Zealand in 1843. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 242 x 365 mm Provenance: The album was passed by Eliza Hobson to her daughter, Eliza, Lady Rendel. Transfers: Originally part of Mrs Hobson's album (E-216-f).. Processing information: One of several pages removed from the Hobson album for conservation reasons, 1990. This page was too large for the album and was becoming damaged around the edges. It was formerly located on p. 107 of the album.

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-019

Description: A yacht and a jetty in the water at the left, the beach and a road centre, houses to the right and in the distance on the surrounding hills. Two men and a woman in front of the nearer houses, one of the men carrying a yoke with heavy buckets, possibly containing milk or water. Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & ink, 198 x 307 mm