Places

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-

Reference: E-328-f-081-3

Description: Shows a collection of small houses, with a stand of trees at the right, and a stretch of the water of Waitemata Harbour, at the left. Rangitoto Island is in the background on the left In: Hunter, N.M., Voyage round the World, 1882-83, vol II , page 81, bottom. Other Titles - Maori settlement nr Auckland Extended Title - In his "Voyage round the world, 1882-1883", vol II, page 81. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 76 x 235 mm.

Date: 1864

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898; Hogg, Neville William (Dr), 1927-2007; Lawford, John E, active 1980-1991

Reference: C-126-005

Description: Shows harbour scene form Commercial Bay looking towards the North Shore and Rangitoto Island. The prison hulk Marion is to the right of a sailing ship on the harbour and there are houses in the foreground, with the house on the left marked as belonging to Mr Jones, probably Mr Humphrey Jones Attribution on stylistic grounds. Sails on ships were painted in by John Lawford, Auckland art dealer, before he sold the painting to Dr Hogg. He based his work on the sailing ship in Charles Heaphy's watercolour "Bream Head", owned by the Library.. Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Auckland harbour Commercial Bay (Beach Rd) 1864; Recto - bottom left - Auckland harbour Oct 64; Recto - bottom centre - Mr Jones' house; Recto - bottom centre - Hulk with Maori prisoners taken at Rangiriri Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 239 x 485 mm (sight) Provenance: Purchased by Neville Hogg from John Lawford, Auckland art dealer, 1980s?

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

Date: 1845 - 1847

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-019

Description: View framed by layered rocks rising on both sides, looking west along the Auckland foreshore, with ships and boats in the harbour and the city visible in the distance on a headland, with the spire of the Cathedral and houses. A man and a boy are seated on the rocks in the foreground Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and conte crayon, 252 x 365 mm Transfers: According to back of file print, 'Removed from Bridge/Williams joint sketchbook' (i.e. E-320-f).

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: 1885 - 1890

By: Payton, Edward William, 1859-1944

Reference: A-045-004-a

Description: View of Auckland from the North Shore. Trees and houses in the foreground and boats on the harbour in the distance. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Auckland from North Shore; Recto - bottom right - P. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 90 x 130 mm on sheet 144 x 200 mm.

Date: 1864

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898; Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: B-035-021

Description: Shows Mechanics Bay with St Paul's Church and Britomart Barracks, ships around Wynyard Pier and a Maori canoe on the mudflats in the foreground. Original mount (now discarded) included inscription on lower right: Colonel Williams, R.A., possibly inscribed by H.J.Warre Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 122 x 247 mm Transfers: Purchased with B-035-016 and B-035-017.

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: 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: 1862

By: Stack, Frederick Rice, -1873; Day & Son (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-060-014

Description: View from the North Shore, looking back towards Auckland city, with four Maori canoes racing (one with a sail), several yachts and sailing ships H. M. S. Miranda and H. M. S. Fawn. The houses of Parnell and other parts of Auckland, and the spire of St Paul's can be seen in the background Extended Title - Plate from: Stack, F R. Views in the province of Auckland (London, 1862). Plate 1. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-col., image, 203 x 405 mm on sheet 358 x 564 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull. Ordered from F. Edwards, London, 11 November 1892 for 20/- for the set of six. (See A H Turnbull's letters)

Date: 1877

By: Sharpe, Alfred, 1836-1908; Young, Jocelyn, 1909-2002

Reference: C-126-001

Description: The edge of Auckland Domain and its fences in the foreground, ringed with young trees. Houses in the middle distance and a train at the water's edge to the left. Three yachts and a small ship on the Waitemata Harbour and Devonport with houses along the waterfront, North Head and Rangitoto across the water. Exhibited in Alfred Sharpe, touring to Auckland City Art Gallery, Museum of New Zealand and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 1993. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print, 1983 cf B-051-005, a lithograph based on a similar view from the New Zealand Observer and Free Lance of 20 February 1886, p. 20. See also TL3/1/1 4 November 1986. The lithograph is based on a pen and ink drawing. Other Titles - The picnic ground, Auckland Domain, 1877 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - A. Sharpe. 1877. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 420 x 630 mm Provenance: Shown at the Auckland Society of Artists' fourth biennial (and final) exhibition in November 1877 with the title The Picnic Ground, Auckland Domain. Given to Oliver Mays by the artist, passing by family descent to Mays' granddaughter, Jocelyn Young. A note on the verso, printed in black felt-tip pen explains: "This painting was given to my grandfather Oliver Mays by A. Sharpe who used to go to visit every Sunday for dinner. My grandfather was able to talk the deaf and dumb language by fingers. [Sharpe was profoundly deaf]. The old house on the Devonport waterfront was lived in by us when my late husband A. R. D. Fairburn was alive. Jocelyn (Mays-Fairburn) Young."

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000067-G

Description: View of Northcote Point and Northcote Wharf from Birkenhead looking southwest towards Auckland. A ferry has just departed from the wharf. Houses can be seen in the foreground of the photograph. Taken ca 1910 by William Archer Price of Auckland. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Northcote from Birkenhead, 991 William Archer Price lived and practiced in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1 Jan 1914

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000257-G

Description: View taken from the Auckland Domain, site of the Auckland Exhibition (1913-1914). Houses in Parnell can be seen in the middle foreground. Mount Victoria and North Head, Devonport can be seen across the Waitemata Harbour with Rangitoto Island in the far distance. Photograph taken by William Archer Price (Price Photographic Company), 1914 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Auckland Harbour from Exhibition No 3061. Photo PPCo 1.1.14. Relationship complexity - A similar view, taken from the same vantage point on the same day, is at 1/2-000777-G Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1863 - 1864

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-106

Description: A view from the harbour with ships in the foreground, showing the buildings of the city's central business district with Partington's windmill crowning the hilltop. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 286 x 235 mm

Date: 1 Jul 1899

By: Hanna, John Robert, 1850-1915

Reference: PA7-49-01

Description: View looking east towards North Head and downtown Auckland. There are a large number of ships and yachts in the harbour. In the foreground is a large area of open ground. Photograph taken by Hanna photographic studio, 1 July 1899 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Hanna photo. Protected 1/7/99 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 23.5 x 36.3 cm

Date: 1 Jan 1914

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000777-G

Description: View taken from the Auckland Domain, site of the Auckland Exhibition (1913-1914). Houses in Parnell can be seen in the middle foreground. Mount Victoria, Devonport and Northcote can be seen across the Waitemata Harbour. On the lefthand side are the Auckland wharves and outer city area. Photograph taken by William Archer Price (Price Photographic Company), 1914 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Auckland Harbour from Exhibition. No 3056. Photo P.P.Co. 1.1.14. Relationship complexity - Another view, taken from the same vantage point, on the same day, is at 1/2-000257-G Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1863

By: Eastwood, James, 1846-1937; Donne, Thomas Edward, 1860-1945

Reference: A-050-001

Description: View of Parnell, North Head, and Rangitoto with established houses and gardens, and four large Norfolk pines in the right foreground. Attributed by Anne Kirker; see TL 3/1/1, 19.12.75 On the reverse is a small drawing, probably of Auckland Harbour looking along the foreshore towards a headland with buildings by the water Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil. Possibly added at a later date and the date may be inaccurate. The number of houses visible and the size of planted trees suggests that it could be as late as the 1890s Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 118 x 174 mm Provenance: Formerly the collection of T E Donne

Date: 1842

From: Terry, Charles, fl. 1840s :New Zealand, its advantages and prospects as a British colony. London, T & W Boone, 1842

By: Gauci, P, active 1842; Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: PUBL-0076-055

Description: View from Parnell with Fort Britomart and the barracks, houses and Waitemata Harbour and the North Shore in the background Extended Title - From: Terry, Charles. New Zealand, its advantages and prospects as a British colony. London, T & W Boone, 1842. Opposite page 55 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 215 x 130 mm

Date: 1864 - 1865

By: Johnston, John Tremenhere, active 1850s-1860s

Reference: C-126-003

Description: Shows view south-east from Northcote (Stokes Point, above Little Shoal Bay), looking across a low headland and the Waitemata Harbour towards Auckland Harbour with ships and the City in the distance. There two Maori women tending a fire in the foreground Supplied title Attribution based on style and information from donor Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 303 x 512 mm

Date: 1849

By: Wynyard, Robert Henry (Sir), 1802-1864

Reference: B-189-012

Description: View looking down Princes Street towards Emily Place, with St Paul's church at the foot of the street, the harbour beyond. The long low house to the right of the church would have been that of Brigade-Major Joseph Greenwood. To the extreme left, the original Wood's Royal Hotel can be seen, with its verandah partly enclosed with lattice. The two-storey building next door to it is the Royal Masonic Hotel, and beside that, the Union Bank of Australia. Various men, women and children are standing or sitting in the street, and a carriage drawn by two horses, carrying four people, rides up the street According to Una Platts' 'The lively capital: Auckland 1840-1865', the image is given the title 'Princes Street, Auckland, 1849, with Colonel Wynyard's carriage'; this title does not appear on the original and may come from family knowledge Wynyard made two versions of the scene; the other is privately owned. The Library holds a photographic reference to this version Other Titles - Street Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Princes St. 1849 [in ink] See also John Williams' pencil and crayon drawing of the same scene, about 1850, at A-079-021 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on paper, 183 x 222 mm, hinged to gate-fold matt 480 x 403 mm Provenance: Previously from a sketchbook of R H Wynyard's, owned by R Lewin Wynyard, Auckland (see U Platts, 'The lively capital ...', 1971, List of illustrations p.257)