Places

Date: 1891

By: Huddleston, Francis Fortescue Croft, 1846-1922; Ellis, Donald Grant, 1937-2010

Reference: A-219-003

Description: Looking east towards Mount Blackburn (also known as Rotten Tommy, the main peak on the left), with another peak on the right, the Tasman River bisecting the view, and a cottage in the left foreground on flat land among scrub. The cottage is likely to be part of either Birch Hill Station or Glentanner Station Other Titles - Mount Blackburn. Rotten Tommy on the right [former title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 254 x 355 mm

Date: 1892

By: Huddleston, Francis Fortescue Croft, 1846-1922; Ellis, Donald Grant, 1937-2010

Reference: A-219-002

Description: Shows an ice cave underneath a glacier, with mountains in the background. Other Titles - January 1892 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Date] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 254 x 353 mm

Date: 1850 - 1855

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Martin G. Heywood (Firm); Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor (Firm); Ellis, Donald Grant, 1937-2010; Ellis, Enid Margaret, 1941-

Reference: D-001-032

Description: Shows Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, the Estuary, and Pegasus Bay from a point on the Port Hills, probably the top of the Bridle Path. View dates from about 1850-54. ATL has Avon Fine Prints facsimiles of this work, at C-061-024/024-b. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Mat recto - beneath image - (In pencil by later hand): 1850 Norman was in New Zealand in the 1840s, and then appears to have returned in 1850. He was appointed to a surveying post in Kaikoura in 1852; but before and after that he travelled around as an artist. The original drawing for this work may have been done in 1850 or at any time in the early 1850s. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted & hand-coloured, 262 x 847 mm, on sheet 325 x 890 mm. Provenance: Had previously belonged to Don and Enid Ellis of Christchurch and was the original on which the Avon Fine Prints reproduction (published 1968) was based.

Date: 1886

By: Huddleston, Francis Fortescue Croft, 1846-1922; Ellis, Donald Grant, 1937-2010

Reference: A-219-005

Description: Shows the original Hermitage built in 1884. White Horse Hill [?] is behind it at the right, and Mount Cook is in the left background. The view is painted from approximately the position of the present Hermitage Hotel. Other Titles - 24 June 1886 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - 24/6/86 F.F.C.H. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 297 x 431 mm