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Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :[Cabbage trees growing in a swamp with a settlement...
Date: 1870 - 1890
From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Australasian views [New Zealand scenes] [ca 1880]
By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908
Reference: E-052-q-015
Description: Shows Mount Eden. The Cabbage Tree Swamp was on the site of present-day Eden Park. Image published as a greetings card by the Library in the 1970s The view may be of Mount Albert (Auckland), rather than Mount Eden. The image features in Scott, Dick. Old Mount Albert (1963) as showing Mount Albert Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white on paper 137 x 183 mm mounted into sketchbook Provenance: Previously part of Alexander Turnbull's collection. The inside of the cover bears his bookplate and the luxurious binding is of the type he arranged.
Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :View from Brighton, Parnell, Auckland, N.Z. 23.2.[1...
Date: 1871
From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Sketchbook [of New Zealand views. 1871-1876].
By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908; Hamblett, Irene Beatrix, 1915-1995
Reference: E-400-f-009
Description: Shows view of Waitemata Harbour from slopes above Parnell where an artist is sitting sketching the scene, with his dog. In middle distance is the church of St Stephen's. Specimens of cabbage tree and toetoe are in the foreground. On verso of E-400-f-008. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J.P.B. / 23.2.71; Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and monochrome wash, 261 x 370 mm.
Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908 :Lake Taupo, Hatepe [ca 1870]
Date: 1870 - 1879
By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908
Reference: G-004
Description: A large Maori pa in the foreground, with wharenui, other houses and a pataka. People seated by a cooking fire on the left and in the entrance to the wharenui. Flax, toetoe, cabbage trees and other bush in an around the pa. In the background is part of Lake Taupo and Mounts Ruapehu and Tongariro, the latter in eruption Inscriptions: Verso - on stretcher in felt-tip pen: Lake Taupo, Hatepe. Also auctioneers' marks and numbers; Recto - bottom right - JPB in pale green brushpoint Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 251 x 305 mm Provenance: Previously acquired by Dunbar Sloane from London, Christie's, 27 Sept 2006, as one of a pair, with lot N184, a view of Maori in a canoe. The latter oil was purchased by the Library in 2009, Maori war canoe, Waikato River, G-112-1. The pair was privately owned in England by descendants of Backhouse's