Places

Date: 1846

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 :Maps from collection

By: Groves, Mr, active 1845-1846; Nops, John George, -1847; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: MapColl-832.11hk/1846/Acc.35844

Description: Map of the area from Kawiti's Pa at Ruapekapeka to Pahia, including the Bay of Islands, to Cape Brett and the coastline south of Wangarura Harbour. Inked lines identify the routes taken by the combined forces in December 1845, including descriptions of the terrain and dates of their advancement. Physical features such as rivers, rocks and bays are named. Stockades and Pa sites are marked, as well as two routes taken by the combined forces which includes notes about the terrain. An detailed table gives dates of battles, numbers of forces engaged, and the wounded. See also MapColl-832.11hkm/1846/Acc.424 for similar map (different title) Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, part coloured, 46.2 x 63.4 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967: The Webster collection and papers - MS-Group-0002.

Date: 1840 - 1850

Reference: B-009-013

Description: Two men resting beside a narrow road newly cleared through native bush, including a tall tree fern, with a river to the left. Could possibly be the Karori or Porirua areas, but more likely to show the making of the road between Petone and Taita Gorge in 1842, overseen by the artist, who was then Chief Surveyor. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print in 1972 - see C-028-036. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 315 x 228 mm

Date: 1863

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

Reference: A-050-020

Description: A view from the road leading down into the port from the south, with a couple standing on the road looking at the view. A house is below the road amidst low scrub, with several other roofs visible, and ships and a mole can be seen, as well as the hills on the opposite side Attributed by Anne Kirker; see TL 3/1/1, 19.12.75 Other Titles - Port Lyttelton Inscriptions: Recto - top left - title and date in pencil. Also in pencil on the verso 'Port Lyttelton' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 115 x 190 mm Provenance: Formerly in the collection of T E Donne

Date: 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-024-021

Description: A track at the edge of a cliff, with water and hills beyond, probably where the Hutt Road meets Petone foreshore. Formerly identified wrongly as located at Eastbourne Other Titles - Petone Road For identification of location compare William Mein Smith's watercolour "South Eastern Bay, Petoni Road, March 1852" (A-034-005), showing the view looking in the opposite direction towards Wellington. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 135 x 210 mm

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: PUBL-0020-09-2

Description: Shows Wellington seen from the Hutt Road with a rocky outcrop in the centre foreground. Other Titles - Petone Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 75 x 190 mm. on page.

Date: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-079-018

Description: An extensive view at Waimate North, with a windmill, the mission station and the church on the horizon. Bracken in the foreground and a rutted dirt road running away into the distance. Fenced paddocks to the right and three small people walking away on the road to the left. Several dead trees in the foreground. Compare a very similar work by Cyprian Bridge at A-079-035 The work appears to have been part of a sketchbook at an earlier stage, with signs of having been bound on its left side. Probably removed by the Library from album E-320-f, which contained 16 sketches on acquisition by Alexander Turnbull in 1893. Identification: the reference to 'Poka Noi' is to a volcanic cone, Puke Nui, or Pukenui, now known as Te Ahuahu, just visible in the centre background Other Titles - Waimate North, Pukenui, Puke Nui, Tamati Waka Nene Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured crayon over sepia ink and wash, 253 x 365 mm

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-043-1

Description: View looking north along the Hutt Road, with the harbour and Somes Island to the right. A canoe is drawing in close to the road and a Maori man is walking towards the viewer along the road. The road appears pitted and muddy. Other Titles - Braithwaite Ngauranga Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash, 159 x 258 mm

Date: 1864

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-182-074

Description: Shows a view of the plain from the slope of Knobby's Track, on which a man leads a loaded horse. A river meanders across the plain and there are hills in the distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 350 mm

Date: 1863

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: PUBL-0033-1863-477

Description: A road carved out through dense bush, with infantry marching along it. There are large trunks from the cleared bush in the right foreground The incident took place at Ramarama, South Auckland Other Titles - Hoyte, John Barr Clarke After an original watercolour by John Barr Clark Hoyte in the Auckland Art Gallery Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 240 mm

Date: 1858

From: Kinder, John 1819-1903 :Keri-Keri, Bay of Islands; [Kerikeri falls] Wangaroa. 1858.

By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903

Reference: A-113-027

Description: An extensive view showing the sea in the foreground, the chapel on the left, the Stone Store at the waterfront, to the right of the road leading down from the top of the hill in the left background, and Kemp house, the two-storied dwelling surrounded by trees to the right of the Stone Store. There are two other houses on top of the hill to the left. There is a view of Kerikeri Falls on the reverse Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - J. Kinder. 1858; Recto - bottom right - title [both inscriptions in pencil in the artist's hand] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Monotone watercolour over pencil, 95 x 291 mm Provenance: Originally in scrapbook purchased from a second-hand shop in Auckland in the 1950s by Mr Harry Rodewald of Auckland. Dismounted and sold separately with other Kinder drawings in the early 1980s.

Date: 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-078

Description: View from a slightly raised perspective past a bridge over the Otira River, along the road and the base of the gorge with tall bush-clad hills and mountains in the background and at both sides. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 345 x 235 mm

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-175-008

Description: Shows at lower right a covered wagon stopped beside a wooden hut. Two men, three horses and a dog are standing beside the wagon, which is standing at the side of a road, curving away around the corner of a road that follows a river though mountainous country. There are snow-capped peaks in the distance. Several birds flutter around the hut, and there are stands of native bush at left and right. Title from the label attached to backing board (retained with the artwork) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 332 x 464 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: 1890 - 1900

By: Kirkwood, Henry William, 1854-1925; McKenzie, Joan Christie, 1918-1995; Rawson, Joan Whiteley, 1910-1992

Reference: G-234

Description: Shows road in foreground leading off into distance, with bushcovered hill in right background. On the road a cowherd follows three cows walking away to background. Dated 1890s on the basis that Kirwood exhibited with the NZ Academy of Fine Arts from 1889 to 1895. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - HWK (in red paint); Verso - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 oil(s) framed.. Physical Description: Oil, 222 x 150 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Miss Joan Whitely Rawson.

Date: 11 Mar 1868

From: Carroll album

Reference: PA1-o-094-39

Description: Otira Gorge Hotel, 11 March, 1868. Shows native bush on the hill behind, a road in the foreground, and two horse drawn coaches. Photograph taken by Daniel Louis Mundy. Note on back of file print reads: "Otira Gorge Hotel with Cobb's coach leaving for Christchurch. Walter Ray was the licensee. Photo taken by D L Mundy and Shepard driving the coach." File print differs from original item. Date on file print is April but photographers inscription is March. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Mundy N Z No 46 11/3/68; Album page - beneath image - Hotel Otira Gorge Westland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 18.8 x 24.2 cm, on album page 24.4 x 32.1 cm

Date: 1894

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-140715-G

Description: Stereographic image of a scene in the Leith Valley, Dunedin, 1894, photographed by William Williams. Shows Malvern Street, Glenleith, and an unidentified girl standing alongside a wooden fence. Henry Skey's house, Leithendel, is in the distance. Note on back of file print reads: Wise's Post Office Directory of 1906: Skey, Hy, Leith Valley, Dun. Inscriptions: From neg bag: Skey's house and Mt Flagstaff, Leith. Dn 437. From photocopy of lantern slide: W Skey's House, Leith, Dunedin 1894. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-080

Description: Shows two men on a track leading to a campfire, among tree ferns, with mountains as a background. The lack of snow on the mountains suggest summertime. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 236 x 344 mm

Date: [187-?]

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA7-30-05

Description: Photograph of Wairarapa from Rimutaka Range, taken ca 1870s by James Bragge. The Rimutaka Hill Road runs through the centre of the image. Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Looking down upon the Wairarapa Plain from the Rimutaka; Mount verso - top centre - Bragge Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 21.8 x 29.2 cm, mounted on paper

Date: 1863

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

Reference: A-050-015

Description: Shows wharves and ships in harbour. In the foreground a man walks down a rough road towards the harbour, past a house with washing hanging on a line and a woman standing beside the house. Sold with title Freeman's Bay, foot of Wellesley Street, Auckland. Attributed by Anne Kirker; see TL 3/1/1, 19.12.75 Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Other Titles - Foot of Wellesley Street, Auckland Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 140 x 190 mm Provenance: Formerly in the collection of T E Donne.

Date: 1850 - 1852

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891

Reference: B-139-004

Description: Shows view of Lyttelton looking towards the immigration barracks, John Robert Godley's house, and the Sumner Road. Shows surrounding houses including one on the hillside above the Sumner Road, with the flagpole outside it. Assumed to be by Weld because of similarity in style to depictions of Lyttleton at the same time, said to be by Weld, held at Canterbury Museum, especially one taken from the same spot and dated 1852. Note long parallel brush strokes, fence palings, ploughed fields. Likely to be slightly after 1850. Compare William Fox's Passengers by the Cressy Landing drawn in December 1850. Weld's painting shows extra buildings and the barracks of the 1850 view converted into houses. It does not show Holy Trinity Church, built and blown down in 1853, but the church might be out of sight on the left from this angle. However, a Canterbury Museum watercolour taken from the identical spot by Mary Townsend is dated 1850. The vendors had this work catalogued as 'School of William Fox', dated ca 1851 Other Titles - Lyttelton, New Zealand c. 1851 Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Lyttelton, New Zealand c.1851; Unsigned. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 195 x 295 mm.

Date: 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-187-053

Description: A cluster of rough huts, with a fence in a bare plain close to the harbour. A road runs to the right and a group of four people stands in the distance William Barnard Rhodes was involved with the purchase of lands in Waikanae, Porirua and Wellington from the Te Ati Awa and Ngati Toa tribes. Many of these purchases were later disputed by the tribes concerned. Rhodes had also invested heavily in trading and whaling operations in the Kapiti and Wellington districts as well as Northland. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on toned paper, 95 x 140 mm