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Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-048

Description: Two drawings and dairy notes on one page. On the left, is a coastal scene looking south, with the survey camp tents on the beach, and a caricature of Alfred Wills in a dunce's cap in the foreground, inscribed Rakaia, Sun 1 Oct and 'By caricaturing only himself a man man render himself ridiculous but not odious.' Top right, diary notes for 1 October. Bottom right, another beach scene with a tent, looking north towards a cliff, with the name Kauwaukakao, corrected to Tauwaukakao 2 Oct. Inscriptions: Recto - Bottom sketch: note beside caricature reads: By caricaturing only himself a man may render himself ridiculous but not odious Quantity: 2 drawing(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1881 - 1898

By: Preston, James, 1834-1898; Rolleston, William, 1831-1903

Reference: A-123-028

Description: A seaside view at sunrise, showing a horse grazing in a paddock, a man seated on a hillock in the foreground, a tent and caravan and four men with fishing gear standing outside a weatherboard shed. Two further men are fishing on the right. The artist met his death while he was fishing in Geraldine, suggesting a great love of the sport. William Rolleston took up land at the mouth of the Rangitata River where he lived for most of his public life, from the 1860s. James Preston was appointed Anglican Minister to the Geraldine district from 1872. Compare Preston's watercolour "Rangitata Huts" in Canterbury Museum's collection - black and white photo held in photo file. This shows the same hut, caravan, tent and horse, sonewhat differently disposed. Suggested date range of execution is derived from the artist's addressing the recipient as "Hon.ble", suggesting William Rolleston was by then a Minister of the Crown, and by the artist's own date of death in 1898. 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 - To Honourable W. Rolleston, Mrs Rolleston & Rolleston family. A very happy and prosperous new year to you all. J. Preston Inscriptions: Verso - inscription from the artist to the recipient, wishing the family a happy new year. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink, watercolour & Chinese white on wove paper 142 x 193 mm Provenance: Rolleston family, Canterbury Transfers: Rolleston family papers, MS Papers-0446-147, transferred to Drawings & Prints, October 1994..

Date: 1850

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-010

Description: Shows a night-time camping scene, lit by a campfire, with members of the six-strong camping party (a woman and five men) seated around the campfire, some of them in the entrance to a tent at the left. The tent uses a flowering cabbage tree as a ridge-pole. The scene may show John Robert Godley, Charlotte Godley (and possibly their son Arthur), as well as Charles Torlesse, Edward Jerningham Wakefield, Hunter Brown and Mr Boys. In a letter to her mother, starting 13 December, Charlotte Godley describes being led on a camping trip with Weld, including camping at the edge of Rangiora Bush on 6 December 1950. She writes of their camp being 'just on the edge of thick, almost impenetrable wood, with very fine trees; and our little tent with a fire at the door, quite shaded over by the tall waving toi-toi grass, and the large one for the gentlemen a little beyond, with such a magnificent fire ... Mr Weld ... went and got me a bouquet ... it was the flower of the cabbage tree ... ' (Godley, Charlotte. Letters from early New Zealand (Christchurch, 1951), p 145. Other Titles - Rangiora, North Canterbury Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 90 x 110 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-068

Description: In the upper sketch, four European men alongside a small tent, with two Maori, gathering sticks (possibly flax stalks) to make a small reed boat or mokihi. They are close to the mouth of the Waihao River, with the sea and coastline visible beyond them. In the lower view, low hills and coastling. The text 'Ye historie of ye moki by W. M. Right merrily ...' has been crossed out, lower right. Wainono Lagoon is on the coastal plain between the Hook and Waihao Rivers, Waimate District, South Canterbury Other Titles - Waihao mokihi Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-056

Description: A panoramic view of Te Wai a te Rua Ti Pa (near Temuka, South Canterbury) running along the top half of the page, with Mantell's tent to the right. A smaller view of a large storage platform titled 'Taraputikitiki' with a ladder leading up the platform and a palisade below it. In the bottom right, a profile head and shoulders portrait of Te Rehe, the Waiteruati chief, a member of the Kati Huirapa iwi, a sub-tribe of Ngai Tahu. Behind him is another view of the storage platform in the distance and there is a frontal view of facial features, possibly those of Te Rehe, a separate drawing of a mouth, and of chin moko, probably also those of Te Rehe Other Titles - Te Wai a te rua ti Pa, near Temuka. Mahatinui. Tanetiki. Urekura. Tanaputakitaki. Quantity: 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :[Journey to New Zealand and the attempt on Mount Cook, November 1881 to March 1882, and] Dodging about Switzerland in 1879.

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919

Reference: E-581-q-008

Description: A small tent beside a river, with foothills and a mountain beyond. A pot boiling over a camp fire, and two men seated by the river. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 126 x 178 mm

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :[Journey to New Zealand and the attempt on Mount Cook, November 1881 to March 1882, and] Dodging about Switzerland in 1879.

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919

Reference: E-581-q-007

Description: Two small tents sheltered by low scrub, with foothills and a mountain beyond. A billy boiling over a camp fire, a weka walking past and a man reclining on the ground. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour with scraping out, 125 x 177 mm

Date: 1850

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-011

Description: Shows a tent and shelter with camp fire on the nearer (south) side of the river. On the far side are two Maori whare and two food storage platforms. A range of foothills of the Southern Alps, including Mount Grey, is in the distance. In the centre foreground by the tent, are a European man, woman and child, probably the Godley family. Two further people are by the campfire and tent on the right. There are flax bushes and scrub on the south side of the river, and a cabbage tree on the north side Compare a very similar view in Canterbury Museum titled by Weld 'Camp, banks of Courtenay (Waimakariri) Canterbury Plains, Dec 5th, 1850'. The Canterbury Museum view contains more people and a clearer view of the shelter and camp fire on the right. On Dec 5th 1850, Weld camped on the south bank of the Waimakariri with John Robert Godley, Charlotte Godley and their three-year old son Arthur Godley, as well as Charles Torlesse, Charles Hunter Brown, E J Wakefield and a surveyor, Mr Boys. Charlotte Godley wrote to her mother about the camp 'The little tent, just big enough for a bed for us three ... The flax bushes and grass grew all about, higher than our tent ... As it got dark, a party of natives, who had been assembling at some huts just across the river, came over in a canoe to pay us a visit ... Next morning we were up early, and ... had to cross the river in a canoe, the horses having to be swum over' (Godley, Charlotte. Letters from early New Zealand. Christchurch, 1951, pp 143-144). The man seated in the tent is likely to be John Robert Godley, while Charlotte Godley will be the woman holding the hand of their small son Arthur by the river. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 245 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1850 - 1851

From: Fox, William 1812-1893 :Four illustrative views of the Canterbury settlement with descriptions; I. Port Lyttelton. II. Landing of the passengers from the "Cressy". III. Part of the great plain. IV. The Rivers Courtenay and Hinds. / From drawings made on the spot, by Miss Mary Townsend and William Fox Esq. London, John W Parker & Son ... 1851

By: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: PUBL-0001-2

Description: View looking down onto Lyttelton Harbour in September 1850, with a family in the foreground shaking hands with the builder of a house, and other new immigrants making their way up the Lyttelton side of the Bridle Path. Washing on a line to the right, tents and houses, with Mr Godley's house and emigration barracks marked, along with Sumner Road to Lyttelton. The first four immigrant ships to Canterbury are also shown in the harbour, the Charlotte Jane on the left, the Randolph, the Cressy (with sails unfurled) and the Sir George Seymour. Small boats are making their way with passengers from the Cressy to the wharf. The accompanying descriptive text reads: This sketch represents Port Lyttelton from a different and much nearer point of view, showing more distinctly the nature of the buildings which had been erected before the arrival of any colonists, and of the sort of places which the first passengers put up for temporary shelter immediately after their arrival. In this View, the shore of Victoria Harbour, opposite to Port Lyttelton, is represented; and the way of exit from the harbour is indicated. The passengers from the Cressy landed eleven days after those by the Charlotte Jane, Sir George Seymour and Randolph; the three last-named ships having sailed from England on the same day and entered Victoria Harbour on the same day, after a prosperous voyage of ninety-seven days. They have at the present time (July, 1851) been succeeded by thirteen large ships, making seventeen in all since last September. Probably based on an ink drawing by William Fox, located at A-195-015. A watercolour version is also held by the Hocken Library. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted etching, black and white, 166 x 276 mm

Date: 1850 - 1851

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867; Burnand, William Henry, active 1843-1850s

Reference: A-195-015

Description: View of Lyttelton Habour from the Bridle Path, on the hills above the town. The first four ships are in port, with passengers leaving the Cressy via a wharf and walking up into the town. Several large buildings are near the water's edge, including immigration barracks, John Robert Godley's house and the offices of the Lyttelton Times newspaper just below the hill on the left. The Sumner Road is formed. Other small houses and tents are dotted around. Immigrants are carrying baggage and some have wheeled carts. A family is greeting a man building his house in the left foreground and a clothes line is in the right foreground. A building on the far right is marked in pencil "C Store H" [?]. On the verso is a schematic map of the location of Christchurch, showing the River Courtney (Waimakariri), Papanui Bush, the Avon River and Riccarton with William and John Deans' property, notes about land purchases and a list of names of land-owning Canterbury settlers. Possibly Fox's original drawing for the etching entitled "Port Lyttelton. Passengers by the Cressy landing" published in 'Four Illustrative Views of the Canterbury Settlement" in 1851. However the style suggests that it may be a copy of the etching by H. J. Cridland - cf A-195-016, especially the foreshortening of perspective and the manner of drawing people. A watercolour in the Hocken Library by Fox entitled "Port Lyttelton. Immigrants luggage disembarking, Jan 1851" is also similar. Other Titles - Lyttelton Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [title in ink]; Recto - bottom left - Office of the Lyttleton Times [in pencil]; Verso - [notes and a map in pencil, ink and watercolour] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on blue laid paper 204 x 322 mm Provenance: Originally tipped in to Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull's bound copy of the New Zealand Journal. Before being acquired by Turnbull, the volumes had belonged to W H Burnand.

Date: 1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; McLeod, Katie, active 1990

Reference: B-063-041

Description: Shows the Akaroa foreshore with James Bruce's hotel and jetty, tents and cottages, a flagpole, canoes and a bridge over the small Kaitangata Stream, with hills beyond. Some figures appear to be Maori, and there are crossed canoe paddles forming the open end of the tent or whare on the right. The view is located in southern Akaroa, in 'English Town' Compare with ink sketch of same scene, with same title and date, also by Mantell (A-049-023). Other Titles - January Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Akaroa / 22 Jan.1849. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 272 x 382 mm.

Date: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-065

Description: Shows lake with hills on either side behind. There is a tent pitched in the left foreground. Stuck to leaf tipped into sketchbook. E-501-f-066 on verso. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - (In ink): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monotone watercolour, 185 x 265 mm.

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :[Journey to New Zealand and the attempt on Mount Cook, November 1881 to March 1882, and] Dodging about Switzerland in 1879.

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919

Reference: E-581-q-009

Description: A small tent sheltered by low scrub on a river flat, with foothills and a mountain (Mount Cook) beyond. A camp fire, with two men approaching from the right, both wearing backpacks. The stony area to the right is the lateral moraine of the Tasman Glacier and the snow shapes beyond that are the Minarets. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - title in ink The site shown is today the position of Ball Hut. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 125 x 177 mm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Gray, William Alexander, 1862?-1937

Reference: Pan-1608-F

Description: Ducks and swans strung between three cars and a hut after a day's shooting. At least 57 ducks and 38 swans. Corrugated iron and wood hut centre left. Two tents behind the hut. Four unidentified men holding guns (one man seated by the hut). Three cars (number plates L to R, NZ 52-636, NZ 53-520 [?, part hidden], NZ 49-515). (Possibly on the property of William Alexander Gray (see Pan-1602 for view of wild swans and ducks on Lake Ellesmere, taken from his property)). Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Opening of Duck Season. A good bag on Lake Ellesmere. N.Z. No. 562 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 121.5 cm

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :[Journey to New Zealand and the attempt on Mount Cook, November 1881 to March 1882, and] Dodging about Switzerland in 1879.

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919

Reference: E-581-q-010

Description: A night scene with three men seated around a fire in a roofless rock shelter. A billy is boiling over the fire and an ice-axe rests to one side. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 125 x 177 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-070

Description: Four sketches in the Waitaki area in October 1848. Top left: 'Paretamokai' (an uncertain placename) showing a man sitting at the right in front of a tent above a valley. Top centre right: 'A Korari hoe on a razeed taia' (a Maori hoe). Top right: 'Camp at Otaitai' showing a camp site near the foot of a cliff; Bottom left 'Damn specimens. There's grub. M.Malmanche ascending ye wata & finds three wooden turnips' shows Mr Malmanche gesturing indignantly in favour of cooking turnips, rather than keeping them as specimens. Behind Malmanche is a seated Maori man with Malmanche again at the top of a ladder, raiding a whata, or food storage platform. There is a large whare alongside. Bottom right: Valley of the Waitaki Tuesday Oct 25, an extensive view of a valley and hills with a small fenced enclosure to the left, possibly a grave site. The place name Otaitai appears to be no longer in use. It is likely to be just north of the Waitaki River. Other Titles - A Korari hoe on a razeed taia. [Oct 1848] Other Titles - Camp at Otaitai Friday [October 1848] Other Titles - Damn specimens: There's grub! M. Malmanche ascends ye Wata and finds 3 wooden turnips. Waitaki Monday Oct 23? Other Titles - Valley of the Waitaki, Tuesday Oct 25 [1848] Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 22 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1866

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Laing, Elizabeth, [1862?]-1950

Reference: A-102-034

Description: The artist and another man standing outside their tent, with Caroline Chevalier emerging from the tent. A billy is boiling over a fire to the right and a knapsack, axe and other items are on the ground. The sketch was made on the group's traverse of the Southern Alps to the West Coast, 1866. The members of the party are evidently deliberating the question of whether the rain will ease Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 89 x 165 mm

Date: 1890

By: Farr, Samuel Charles, 1827-1918

Reference: G-408

Description: Shows three men around a tent pitched on the top of grassy hills near a rocky outcrop. Their tent is pitched at the left, and at the centre, smoke rises from their campfire. The tent appears to have a brand name sign on the side. One of the man is reading a book. At the extreme right and left are what may be handbuilt piles of stones, possibly from a stone quarry. Small pink flowering bushes are in the foreground, above a clay bank. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on board, 245 x 350 mm. Provenance: The vendor bought the painting from descendants of the artist; they confirmed the location of the scene.

Date: 1882

By: Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898

Reference: A-449-001

Description: View of J C Richmond's camp site in the upper Waimakariri, showing his tent, utensils on the ground, and towels or blankets slung over a branch to dry. The background scene is of dense forest Although the work is not dated, the library holds a watercolour by Richmond of the same area, dated 1882 (C-090-001), suggesting this pencil drawing might have been done at the same or a similar time Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - J C R [artist's initials]; Recto - bottom right - Sat / Mar / My camp head of Waimakariri [inscriptions in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 154 x 255 mm

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0026931

Description: A cartoon of a settlement consisting entirely of tents and labelled '"Tentleton"'. The tents and inhabitants, both in stages of disrepair, are in streets signposted as 'Squalor St', 'Destitute Drive' and 'Winz Way'. The 'attractions' of the settlement include 'No covenants. All pets. Own longdrop. No rates. solar heating'. The cartoon is captioned 'Another Christchurch sub-division'. It was reported on 12 December 2013 that since the 2011 earthquake the number of people with dire needs on Housing New Zealand's waiting list had tripled, with 39 families in Christchurch more in need of housing than a woman who had moved her family into a tent in a public park. With the shortage of housing, a shanty and tent city seemed possible. 'Tentleton' is a play on the name for a real suburb, 'Templeton'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).