Places

Date: 1881

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Aitken, Robert Walter, 1828-1910

Reference: C-003-007

Description: Shows a view looking down from a rocky outcrop (partially seen in the extreme left foreground), on to the field of a farm with horses, cattle, a farmhouse, outbuildings, and at far right a haystack. A row of trees runs along one of the boundaries of the property, parallel to the river in the background. On the far side of the river are limestone cliffs and hills. The locality is more commonly known as Clifden, and Cyclopedia of New Zealand, volume 4, Otago and Southland, decribes it as having been a large sheep station. Other Titles - Clifden Notes on backing board recto: Painting of Clifdene Station on the Waiau River, Southland. Formerly owned by R W Aitken. Painted by a French artist. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 394 x 620 mm. Provenance: "This work originally belonged to a descendant of the Aitken family who owned Clifdene when Aubrey painted this work" (Auction catalogue, International Art Centre, 16 September 2008) Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: [between 1879 and 1929]

From: Browning, H :Photographs by James Ring

Reference: 1/2-050025-F

Description: Cape Foulwind showing the cliffs and rock formations. Two standing figures are silhouetted on a rock in the middleground. Photograph taken by James Ring, between 1879 and 1929. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Brown Terrace, Cape Foulwind, NZ. 809; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Ring Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1865

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

Reference: B-045-034

Description: Very similar to version at A-210-002. Also similar to work in Hocken sketchbook page 67: "23 Jany. The Mowhanau Stream; close to Alexander's Farm. 1865". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 138 x 232 mm.

Date: [ca 1868]

From: Holder, Miss: Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-f-030-29

Description: Limestone cliffs containing Maori burial caves, Waiomio, Northland, New Zealand. Photograph taken circa 1860s by Daniel Louis Mundy. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - Burial caves of the Tribes at Waio- Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 21 x 25.5 cm on album page 29.5 x 38.7 cm

Date: 1865

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

Reference: B-045-035

Description: Shows paddlesteamer at mouth of river, with cliffs and open sea in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 138 x 232 mm.

Date: 1866

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

Reference: A-102-007

Description: A road below a cliff and above the river on the left, with Ray's Accommodation house in the middle distance, a steep cliff on the far side of the river and hills beyond Other Titles - Accommodation house ...on the Taramakau Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 127 x 177 mm

Date: 1839

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: A-146-004

Description: Shows a canoe with sails on the water, and a pa (likely to be Haera Hau Pa) perched on a cliff promontory overlooking the river. There are canoes drawn up on the narrow beach under the cliff and low scrub and a path rising up the cliff face. The view is from the right bank looking southeast across the river mouth and inland, with the pa on the cliff above the left bank Heaphy visited Patea Pa (and Waimate Pa), Taranaki, in 1839 on a journey with Robert Park. A sketchbook recording the trip is in Auckland Museum Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Chas Heaphy / Portfolio D; Recto - top centre - (In red ink): No 18 Watercolour similar to this sketch is at the Hocken, Library Reference Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 Williams, E.A. (Edward Arthur), ca. 1824-1898 Patea, 1839, 95/89. https://hakena.otago.ac.nz/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/COLLECTIONS/WEB_COLL_DET_REP/SISN 444?sessionsearch accessed 28 November 2022. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 228 x 305 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company collection. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, London, 1915. Processing information: Pa site identified as Haera Hau Pa, following researcher information in November 2022. Hocken Library has watercolour of this sketch identified as Haera Hau Pa. See also "Ealry Māori", 'Patea Historical Society', https://www.pateahistoricalsociety.org.nz/early-maori.html, accessed 28 November 2022 - for a description of the Pa.

Date: 1848

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

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

Reference: E-334-040/041

Description: Probably Banks Peninsula, near Long Bay. Includes part of Peraki, and 'Horseshoe Bay' and a hilltop named as Satan's Fissure. Part of the drawing continues across to the second page; part is upside-down Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Sept 22; Recto - Peraki. Satan's Fissure Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (Letter writing and sketches). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1882

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

Reference: E-328-f-094

Description: Apparently a view of Horohoro cliffs seen from road to Te Wairoa through a gap in the hills - also Haparangi hill visible (Source of information: Professor Ron Keam). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 153 x 238 mm

Date: 1870 - 1900

From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. named]

By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916

Reference: E-057-025

Description: Shows a view of a coastal cliff, with offshore rocks. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 72 x 169 mm.

Date: 1857

Reference: A-306-001

Description: Watercolour of White Island shows view of headland in middle distance, with house and outbuilding at right and cabbage trees and cattle further left. In the distance is a small island. The Forbury homestead was built by William Henry Valpy in the early 1850s. Forbury was the old name for St Clair, and was named after Valpy's birthplace near Reading,Berkshire. Valpy's widow lived in the house with her brother the Reverend Charles Jeffreys and his family from 1852 until they moved to other Valpy properties in and around Oamaru in the 1860s. Inscriptions: Verso - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 160 x 241 mm.

Date: 1879

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Smith, Dennison Urban, -1892

Reference: C-126-010

Description: Shows the settlement at Bravo Island in Paterson Inlet, with the farm of Dennison Urban ("Yankee") Smith at extreme left, and the house of the Portuguese whaler Manuel Gomez in the centre with three figures in the doorway. There is cleared land in foreground, cows at pasture, a boatshed (to the left of Smith's beached boat - the "Bravo"), a cowshed at the extreme right, a sandspit at the extreme right beside the inlet in the right background. Two clay cliffs on the far bank are reflected in the water. The details listed are taken from John Hall-Jones "Stewart Island explored" 1994 - ATL has at NZ&P 993.1 HAL 1994. 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. Painting made by Aubrey in return for hospitality of the Smith family. For more information about "Yankee" Smith, see AT 3/1/2, 1 July 1976. Other Titles - River settlement Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. Aubrey 1879 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 340 x 515 mm. Provenance: Previously sold at auction by Dennison Smith, a direct descendant of Yankee Smith, at Devereux and Culley's auction rooms, Mt Eden, in 1983. Prior to that, the work had been in the family of Yankee Smith on Stewart Island. The painting had been given to Yankee Smith by the artist in return for hospitality

Date: 1869

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-027-010

Description: View of a rocky cliff and heads at the entrance to Akaroa Harbour Acquired before 1941 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 127 x 177 mm

Date: 1865

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: B-035-030

Description: View into the valley of the Tangahoe River, at the coast, with tall cliffs at the water's edge. A makeshift bridge has been erected and troops are crossing and continuing on up a steep path on the opposite bank. There is a tent with a cooking fire at the base of the steep path and there are several soldiers on horseback as well as horse-drawn drays Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 252 x 355mm

Date: 1862

From: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906 :[Four works - Off Napier, New Zealand, 2 April 1862; Taranaki roads, New Zealand, Mount Egmont and the Sugar Loaf Mountains, 19 March 1863; Taranaki or New Plymouth, New Zealand, visited 27 June 1863; and, The Manukau Heads, New Zealand, 10 April 1863.]

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-064-036

Description: Shows view of coast and town of Napier, seen from on board ship. There are two sailing ships in the foreground, and the barracks on a distant hill. Below, mounted on sames sheet: Taranaki roads, New Zealand...1863 (B-064-037). On verso: Taranaki or New Plymouth, New Zealand...1863 (B-064-038): and, The Manukau Heads, New Zealand...1863 (B-064-039). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - (In pencil): Off Napier - New Zealand; Recto - bottom right - 2 April 1862; Recto - beneath image - (On backing sheet in pen): Off Napier New Zealand 2 April 1862 - Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 80 x 286 mm, on sheet 305 x 386 mm.

Date: 1878

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-012-2

Description: Shows a large house, possibly the house of Major Mathew Richmond, surrounded by trees at the top of a cliff in Nelson Other Titles - September Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - K Holmes; Recto - bottom right - The cliffs Nelson Sept 7th 1878 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 241 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-334-064/065

Description: Extensive views of the South Canterbury coastline and hills, the snowy Southern Alps, 'patches of bush' mentioned. Inscriptions: Recto - above both images Oct 20; Recto - top image: Otaio looking S from the cliffs...; Recto - Bottom image: Sat Oct 24; end of Porewa and other notes by artist Quantity: 2 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 400 mm (page size)

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: C-007-005

Description: Shows a view looking southwest over Lake Taupo, with Ruapehu shown to the left of Ngauruhoe which has a plume of smoke coming from it. The right foreground shows bush and a small plateau on which cattle are grazing. There are cliffs on the lakeside in the left distance. Shows Motutaiko Island in the central distance. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 330 x 520 mm

Date: 1865

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

Reference: B-045-049

Description: Shows soldier standing amongst flax bushes on cliff overlooking entrance to Patea River, with the cliffs on the far bank and the open sea in the distance. A redoubt can be seen on the south bank of the river. The redoubt on the south bank was called Dawson's Redoubt. It was completed in February 1865 Compare a very similar watercolour 'Patea, New Zealand, 1865' by E A Williams at B-035-029 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 138 x 232 mm.

Date: 1861 - 1871

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

Reference: E-501-f-036

Description: Shows the river winding from background dry hills, towards right foreground, passing limestone? cliff at left middle distance. In immediate foreground is dilapidated wooden bridge, but it is not clear if this bridge crosses the river. This is probably the Waiau River in North Canterbury, as this area was part of Nelson Province in the period 1852-76. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 120 x 154 mm.