Places

Date: 1860

By: Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913; Gilbert, Raymond Channing, 1915-1993

Reference: A-263-021

Description: A small house with front verandah on top of a hill in the middle distance. Mount Egmont can be seen in the background. The land in front is cleared with bush in the foreground. May show Touet's [Touett's] house looking east from Allen's Hill, on Hurford Road, Omata; Mt Egmont in background. Compare very similar (preliminary?] sketch at A-263-022 Identification and attribution from donor Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on grey paper, 236 x 259 mm

By: Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913

Reference: A-263-014

Description: A farm house on a low rise, a separate building, possibly also a dwelling (with smoke rising from the chimney), poplar trees, cows and crops. Donor suggests same vantage point as for the artist's [Arthur Range from Wakatu] (B-038-022), turned 45 degrees to right Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil 293 x 208 mm

By: Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913

Reference: A-263-015

Description: A large two-storied house with gabled windows, alongside another house, on a hill. A fenced garden in front, and trees, possibly pines, on the hill behind the house. Believed to show house of Sir Edward W Stafford, Superintendent of Nelson Province. Compare a photograph by the Tyree brothers, held by Nelson Provincial Museum Identification and attribution from donor Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 212 x 298 mm

Date: 1860

By: Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913

Reference: A-263-018

Description: A detailed drawing of the front view of the house and garden of Jabez Marriage Gibson at Omata, Taranaki. The house has a fenced and cleared hill behind and large trees on both sides. Land has been cleared in front of the house, and a large native tree with epiphytes has been encircled with a fence Identification and attribution from donor, (See TL 3//1/1/4, 10/7/1985) The original drawing for a lithograph with title Swiss Cottage, Omata, published as the frontispiece in Gilbert, Thomas. New zealand, settlers and soldiers, or the war in Taranaki, being incidents in the life of a settler... (London, A W Bennett, 1861) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 189 x 279 mm

Date: 1857 - 1863

By: Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913; Gilbert, Raymond Channing, 1915-1993

Reference: A-263-022

Description: A small wooden house, with stumps and a cleared paddock in front, bush behind. May show Touett's house looking east from Allen's Hill, on Hurford Road, Omata. Apparently a preliminary sketch for A-263-021 Identification and attribution from donor Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing on grey paper ; pencil 236 x 259 mm

Date: 1860

From: Artist unknown :[Seven drawings featuring various colonial subjects. ca 1860]

By: Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913

Reference: A-457-008-7

Description: Shows fenced pasture in the foreground with two cows and a human figure, a cottage surrounded by bush and trees in the centre, and with Mount Taranaki and surrounding hills in the distance The artist of this version is unknown, but compare with A-256-040 (Cottage of a small farmer, New Plymouth ...), possibly after George Channing Gilbert, and published as a lithograph by Vincent Brooks in Hursthouse's 1857 publication, three years before this work is dated. Compare with A-256-040 (Cottage of a small farmer, New Plymouth ...) On the verso is another pencil drawing of a cottage, with trees, fenced pasture and gardens surrounding; possibly the same farmhouse from a different perspective Extended Title - Originally published in: Hursthouse, C. New Zealand or Zelandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Opposite p.209 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Cottage of a small farmer / New Plymouth / N.Z. 1860 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on laid, watermarked paper, 200 x 325 mm