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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: 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

Date: 1917

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948; Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898-1980

Reference: B-061-011

Description: A large house with a square turret, surrounded by gardens and viewed across lawn Trees in the garden appear to include a large pohutukawa on the left, a palm tree and a tall Norfolk Pine on the right Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signature and date in brushpoint [barely visible]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 210 x 400 mm

Date: 1886 - 1890

From: Willis, Archibald Dudingston (Firm) :N. Z. Christmas cards. - Wanganui ; A.D. Willis [1886 or later].

Reference: E-068-015-1

Description: Rangitoto and North Head seen from the shore-line with a road, houses and gardens in the foreground. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chomolithograph 72 x 104 mm on album page ca 137 x 180 mm

Date: 1870

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Pacey, J (Miss), active 1960s-1980s

Reference: C-052-003

Description: Shows view of house from field in front, cows, stone wall at left (still partly standing). The garden is shown as being on three levels, terraced and connected with short flights of steps. Young trees are planted around its perimeter, including a Norfolk Pine or similar conifer. Two small outbuildings are shown in the right background and the family is standing , leaning on the rail on the front verandah. A small cottage is amongst the trees to the left. See also C-052-002: [Auckland harbour...] Harry Cobley was married to Louisa Elizabeth Penman Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - J. C. Hoyte [in Chinese white] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white, 333 x 531 mm

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: 1860

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

By: Urquhart, G, active 1860; Hodgkinson & Company

Reference: A-457-008-4

Description: Two sketches shown on the recto: on the left, a study of plants including a young Norfolk pine and a flax plant; on the right, a house with a path leading up to it, with landscaped gardens. Two figures that would appear to be a boy and a girl, walk up the path On the verso are three other pencil drawings of non-New Zealand scenes, probably in England or Europe 'Ghur' or Ghar is the Hindi word for a house Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Karaka Ghur / 1860 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on laid, watermarked paper, 198 x 325 mm

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