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Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Auckland Harbour from above Freeman's Bay] [1866?]
Date: 1866
By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898
Reference: B-035-025
Description: Rangitoto, Devonport, North Head, sailing ships at wharf; St Mary's Catholic Church, Freeman's Bay, left foreground showing spire (added 1865; see TL 3/1/1, 19/4/1985); end of Queen St wharf, Commercial Bay (see TL 3/1/1, 3/5/1985). Compare very similar view in Williams' sketchbook E-349-b entitled: Auckland Harbour from near Freeman's Bay, July 3 1866. Supplied title. Date confirmed from presence of spire on church, added 1865. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 163 x 490 mm
[Warre, Henry James] 1819-1898 :Auckland Harbor [1864?]
Date: 1863 - 1865
By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898
Reference: B-035-017
Description: View of Rangitoto and North Head from a bushy foreshore with a jetty in the foreground. Commercial Bay is at the foot of a slightly-indicated road on the left (Queen Street) leading down to a wharf. The jetty shown is Wynyard Pier, built in 1851. One of the trees in the foreground is a Norfolk pine. The library now also holds a similar view by Warre, entitled Auckland Habour [1861-1865] (B-183-027), which has more built environment in the foreground. Other Titles - Auckland Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink written as Auckland harbor Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, watercolour, and crayon on photo-sensitive paper 155 x 240 mm
[Warre, Henry James] 1819-1898 :Auckland Habour. [1861-1865]
Date: 1861 - 1865
By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898
Reference: B-183-027
Description: Shows Commercial Bay with Wynyard Wharf in the foreground, North Head and Rangitoto in the distance, viewed from Courthouse Hill (now Constitution Hill). A tent-style building sits on the slope of the hill in the foreground to the left (probably Queen St.), with three figures standing in front of it. A number of vessels, including a sailing ship, sailing boats and rowboats or waka, can be seen in the bay. In the foreground on the right can be seen a Norfolk pine amongst other trees and bush, and the smoking brick chimney and part of the roof of a house. The word harbour in the work's title is mis-spelled as habour The library also holds a very similar work by Warre entitled Auckland harbor [1864?] (B-035-017), featuring North Head, Rangitoto Island, ships in the bay and a Norfolk pine, though with less built environment in the foreground. Other Titles - Auckland Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Auckland Habour, New Zealand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 227 x 316 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase the work was put up for auction at the International Art Centre, Auckland, July 2011 (lot 47, passed in); prior to that, privately owned