Places

Date: 1874

Reference: 1/2-020463-F

Description: Redoubt at Onepoto, on the shore of Lake Waikaremoana, 1874. Photographer unidentified. From Wises New Zealand Guide a Gazetteer of New Zealand, 1987, page 297: "...an Armed Constabulary redoubt built in 1870 for the troops engaged in tracking down the Maori leader Te Kooti." Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1860

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: A-186-048

Description: Shows a view of the Hutt Valley with the river winding towards the foreground. The buildings of the stockade (Fort Richmond) are at the left with a blue white and red striped flag flying on a pole beside one of the buildings. There may be a bridge in the centre, with a further three houses at the right. Other Titles - And Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 90 x 255 mm, lower corners rounded Provenance: Previously held by descendants of the Swainson family.

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-060

Description: Shows St Paul's Anglican Church (right) and the Catholic church (left) at Rangiaohia. Blewitt's Redoubt is in the centre, with military tents behind protective fencing. The view is flanked by trees on both sides, and the artist has drawn another tree horizontally across the top of the page. St Paul's Church, built about 1853, is still standing in modern Te Awamutu. It was used as a refuge by the local people during the fighting nearby in 1864 Other Titles - Rangiaohia Rangiaowhia Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Rangiawhia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 100 x 160 mm.

Date: 1865

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]

Reference: B-045-027

Description: Shows the town from the water's edge, with a boat moored at right, some waterside buildings, dwellings, and fortifications on the hilltop. Similar to version at A-210-004. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 138 x 232 mm.

Date: [1886]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/2-011820-F

Description: Copy of an original photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Wanganui. Other - This is a copy, made by the Alexander Turnbull Library, of a discarded 10x12 negative Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1863 - 1922

From: Cowan, James :The New Zealand wars. Wellington, Government Printer, 1922.

By: Bates, Henry Stratton, 1836-1918

Reference: PUBL-0054-1-241

Description: Conical military tents on a field, with farm buildings to the right, the redoubt spread across a low hill in the middle distance and wooded hills behind. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of watercolour (book illustration)

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Tully, Dorothy, 1895-1971

Reference: A-034-029

Description: The bridge and fort viewed from the north, a windmill to the right and a bare tree in the foreground. The bridge is the second Hutt bridge, built after the first one was destroyed in the 1848 earthquake. The second bridge was destroyed in the 1855 earthquake. Compare a very similar drawing by G. F. Swainson, Fort Richmond and the second Hutt Bridge. Swainson was almost certainly copying W. M. Smith's drawing. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 160 mm x 240 mm

Date: 1865

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898; Stack, James West (Rev), 1835-1919

Reference: A-210-004

Description: Shows sailing ship at jetty, houses and Rutland Stockade on hill Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title, without date]. Very similar to version at E-510-027. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 145 x 230 mm Provenance: Originally owned by Rev. J. W. Stack. Transfers: Transferred from J. W. Stack papers (fMS Stack) in Manuscripts and Archives, 1970s or early 1980s.

Date: 1860

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888; Day & Son (Firm)

Reference: B-051-015

Description: Shows a number of block-houses grouped round the settlement. Mt Egmont is in the distance and the sea in the foreground. The perspective of the foreground is a bird's-eye view. It includes the houses, St Mary's church, and other buildings of New Plymouth After a watercolour by John Gully in Archives New Zealand. See Ellis, E. M. & D. G. Early prints of NZ (Christchurch, 1972), item no. 630 The majority of these forts were never built Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph in tints, 221 x 340 mm on sheet 320 x 400 mm

Date: 1852 - 1880 - 1857 - 1890

By: W E & F Newton (Firm); Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873; Brackenbury, Carole, active 1989

Reference: Curios-021-007

Description: Shows view of Wanganui wharf, Christ Church, and Rutland Stockade, framed by cave entrance, with three Maori figures in foreground. Loosely based on Richard Taylor's "Wanganui, NZ" (1848), at E-296-q-159, combined with the wood engraving in the Church Missionary Gleaner (1884, p. 83, a re-illustration of an 1850s view] 'The mission station at Wanganui, as seen from a natural cave in the rocks'. Dating: W E & F Newton were based at 3 Fleet Street (the address printed on the wooden surround) between 1852 and 1857 A likeness of this scene is at Curios-042-013, Wanganui and cave New Zealand, by the same publishers Inscriptions: Verso - (Embossed on frame at left and right of image): W.E. & F. Newton / OPTICIANS / & GlobeMakers / TO THE QUEEN / 3 Fleet St Temple Bar / LONDON; (Number in ink on frame): 35 Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured glass, 80 mm diameter (sight), in wooden frame 101 x 165 mm.

Date: ca 1950-1965

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 9

Reference: PAColl-6181-32

Description: Chevaux de Frize above the Hutt Road, Anti-Russian fort, Ngauranga, Wellington, circa 1939. Photographer unidentified. PAColl-4709 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: [ca 1881]

From: Parihaka album 1

Reference: PA1-q-183-10

Description: Rahotu redoubt, south Taranaki, from the back, photographed at the time of the Parihaka campaign, ca 1881, by William Andrews Collis. Source of descriptive information - Notes on album page and PA1-q-183-01. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Rahotu Redoubt - from the back Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 19.5 x 24.1 cm, mounted on album page 26.6 x 34.7 cm

Date: 1903

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketches

Reference: E-346-3-052

Description: Mount Taranaki, with houses in the foreground, and possibly the remains of the Omata Stockade among bush Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 163 x 224 mm

Date: 1846 - 1951

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962

Reference: A-173-035

Description: The stone Paremata Redoubt, with its two towers, surrounded by a yard with a picket fence. A ship visible in Porirua Harbour in the background and soldiers standing in line to attention, with tents in the distance. By the gate in the foreground, a Maori woman is selling produce to a group of soldiers, while another man with fish in a kete, and a woman with potatoes await their turn. Two civilians watch the proceedings from the right, one smoking a pipe. Drawn from descriptions provided by James Cowan The remains of this fort still stand in the Ngati Toa Domain, at Mana, just north of Porirua City Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Grey wash, 242 x 316 mm

Date: 1848 - 1850

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889

Reference: B-089-001

Description: Shows a Maori man and woman at the far left, standing outside a whare with carved tekoteko figure. Behind the whare is a palisade and to the far right a waka is being launched into the sea. This work has also been know as 'Meeting house and stockade' A third foreground figure has been pencilled in beside the couple at the left, but has not been completed. This painting was used as the basis for 'Stranger's house (Houraki Pah)', Plate 5 in R A Oliver's 'A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand' (London, Dickinson Bros, 1852) Title from letter of authentication on backing board (accompanies painting in same folder). See also B-189-013 by R A Oliver ('Ihawera'), possibly showing the same woman dressed in striped shirt, knotted scarf and red blanket Other Titles - Meeting house and stockade Other Titles - Stranger's house (Houraki Pah) Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 272 x 370 mm (sight) Provenance: Previously owned by the artist's descendent Mrs Madeleine McClintock and sold to Brian Groshinski. Sold at McArthur's auction to Goodman Fielder in 1984. Passed in at Webb's auction, March 1995, lot 114.

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-015

Description: Two soldiers, one standing, one on horseback, gazing in the direction of a large wooden-fenced fort on the right of the Mangapiko Stream, with the palisades of the opposing Maori pa just visible on the brow of a hill in the distance. There is a low bridge across the creek, with a road leading up the right bank towards the fort. Probably copied by Hamley from a drawing of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, although the original for this view is not known. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 88 x 177 mm

Date: 1882

By: Graphic (London, England); Sherriff, George, 1846-1930

Reference: B-033-006

Description: 10 vignettes from drawings by George Sherriff, showing the Rutland Stockade, a portrait of Major Noake, Mount Egmont with the remains of the Maori fortification at Turoturomokai, Rahotu stockade and camp, Opunake Redoubt, scene in a pa with Maori standing guard by a hut, Te Whiti and Tohu, 'the murderer Hiroki and his guard', the military camp at Pungarehu and Parihaka Published in The Graphic, London, 8 April 1882 The Graphic attributes the drawings to George Sherriff. Some are signed with an engraver's monogram, either H. J. or J. H. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 305 x 228 mm

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]

Reference: B-045-010/011

Description: Shows Fort Britomart on headland in right background. In right foreground is a jetty with several men and one woman with a parasol, standing on it. In front of the jetty is a small sailboat. There are two other small boats between the jetty and the fort, and two more in the left background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - (On left panel): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 138 x 464 mm.

Date: 1864

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-320-27-2

Description: View of Queen's Redoubt and grouped tents of a military camp at Pokeno, south of Auckland, seen across lush pastureland. In the foreground is a thick patch of bracken fern and scrub. In the distance, beyond the camp and redoubt, can be seen bush covered hills. Photographed by Daniel Manders Beere in 1864 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 17.4 x 10.5 cm, on album page 28.7 x 22.8 cm

Date: 1863

From: Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :[Notes and sketches of Maori fortifications, 1839-1863] [1] Notes relative to sketches; [2] Fighting stages Waitangi, Chatham I[slan]d. 1839; Waimate pa, 1839; Sunset Point, Auckland; Summit of Rangitoto Island, Auckland; [3] Ruapekapeka, section along red line in sheet 6 [4] Tauranga Ika Pah; [5] Earthworks at Rangiriri, Waikato, 1863; Plan of a pa, Massacre Bay, 1839; Section of a wall near a gateway; [6] [Unidentified pa, sketch signed by R. Chapman]; Rangiriri, sketch of Maori works taken the day of the capture, 1863.

Reference: B-043-015-5-1

Description: Shows trenches and walls of the Rangiriri fortification. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph of pen drawing and notes on sheet 395 x 470 mm