Places

Date: 1856

From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-004

Description: View looking across to the south-west of Evan's Bay with Cook Strait beyond, a schooner on the water and bush, including a rata, cabbage trees, a tree-fern and flax in the foreground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 143 x 229 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

Reference: A-020-048

Description: The palisades of Motuopuhi Pā [Motuapuhi/Motupoi], near Tongariro, on Lake Rotoaira. Compare the Library's finished watercolour of the same scene 'Motupoi Pa'; also the lithograph in Angas' The New Zealanders illustrated. Plate 32, p. 75. Loose, not bound in volume, issuable separately Appears to have been in the Angas album at page 37, under an earlier numbering system. Other Titles - Ko Rotoaira ko Motoupuki Pa [inscription on verso] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 261 x 325 mm

Date: [1911-1912]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-019576-G

Description: Looking south east on Courtenay Place, Wellington, toward Kent and Cambridge Terraces. Shows cabbage trees and people waiting for trams on the left. In the middle ground, centre left, on Kent Terrace, is a group of 4 businesses including the Cafe Royal with a sign advertising `Oysters'. Houses and other businesses are alongside the Cafe. Photograph taken by Charles Sydney Smith between 1911-1912. A similar image at 1/1-019569 Where the Cafe Royal stands will later be the site of the De Luxe theatre. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1861 - 1871

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

Reference: E-501-f-004

Description: Shows dog(?) and cattle in river at right, high rolling country with flax and cabbage trees, and the mountains near the Rakaia Gorge in the distance. Hurt farmed near the Selwyn River from about 1861. He was listed in the Rakaia electorate for 1872-73. Other Titles - Rakaia Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 139 x 214 mm.

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-187-050

Description: A traveller on a low hill beneath tall trees, with a cabbage tree to the right. He is overlooking a bush-clad valley and hills Other Titles - Pakuratahi Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 112 x 165 mm

Date: [between ca 1911-1912]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 10x8-1743-G

Description: Looking south east on Courtenay Place, Wellington, toward Kent and Cambridge Terraces. Shows cabbage trees and trams. In the middle ground, centre left, on Kent Terrace, is a group of 4 businesses including the Purvis millinery shop and the Cafe Royal with its sign advertising `Oysters'. Photograph taken by Charles Sydney Smith between 1911-1912. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1870 - 1890

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Australasian views [New Zealand scenes] [ca 1880]

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908

Reference: E-052-q-015

Description: Shows Mount Eden. The Cabbage Tree Swamp was on the site of present-day Eden Park. Image published as a greetings card by the Library in the 1970s The view may be of Mount Albert (Auckland), rather than Mount Eden. The image features in Scott, Dick. Old Mount Albert (1963) as showing Mount Albert Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white on paper 137 x 183 mm mounted into sketchbook Provenance: Previously part of Alexander Turnbull's collection. The inside of the cover bears his bookplate and the luxurious binding is of the type he arranged.

Date: 1869

By: Fraser, I T B, active 1863-1890s; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-196-014

Description: Looking across a river towards mountains. A small Maori canoe is on the river, with flax, cabbage trees and other bush on both sides Originally catalogued by the Library as being painted by J B Fraser, a possible interpretation of the artist's monogram. The annotations on the back were believed to be signed by surveyor Malcolm Fraser, from a reading of the illegible first name. However the writing, and style of drawing and painting match those of Captain I T B Fraser, artist of a group of sketches of the war in Waikato about 1864, Library reference number E-571-q. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - signed with initials in a monogram and date in red brushpoint, on a rock, lower left. Also verso, in pencil: Title: Between Cashels Station and Shortland, Thames Goldfields, about 23 miles up the Ohinemuri River by water: after you leave the bend by a place called Purri Purri you will see the same on the right. Hard going up the Ohinemuri River. New Zealand. [signed, first word illegibly] Fraser Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 154 x 243 mm

Date: 1900 - 1914

By: Fergusson Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-LIBRARY-1900s-01

Description: Shows the old library building on Riddiford Street, with a tram passing beside a horse and cart. There are cabbage trees along the street frontage. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 88 x 139 mm.

Date: 1899 - 1900

By: Otago Sunday School Union; Fergusson and Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-RELIGION-C-1900-01

Description: Certificate shows an arrangement of text, with a dove of peace at the top, and two seated angels flanking the Holy Bible at the bottom. At the sides are New Zealand scenes: Maori beside a lake with tree fern at the left, and at right a church and cabbage tree in front of a snowy mountain, possibly Mt Taranaki. Denomination may be Presbyterian or Methodist. Other certificates awarded to Mary McKenzie include some from the New Zealand Methodist Sunday School Union, but there is also published evidence that the Otago Sunday School Union may have been linked to the Presbyterian Church. It may have been interdenominational. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on card, 310 x 250 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Hobsons, Wellington, in 2007.

Date: 1895

By: Ross, Samuel G, active 1890s

Reference: E-341-f

Description: Scenes of St Paul's pro-cathedral, Bishop's Court, Government House, Queen's wharf and Lake Manapouri. Surrounded by native vegetation including nikau, toetoe, tree fern, flax, a cabbage tree, rata, clematis paniculata and ferns. There are also taiaha and tewhatewha (Maori weapons) used as backgrounds to two of the inserts. Image of Lake Manapouri inaccurately shows a nikau and cabbage tree, neither of which occur naturally in southern Fiordland Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour in bound format, dark green watered silk front endpaper, inlaid ornamental wood cover-folder in kauri, 450 x 360 mm

Date: 1847 - 1860

From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-011

Description: A centrally-placed mature multi-trunked cabbage tree, with rocky headlands and a canoe on the sea beyond. Likely to be the eastern side of Miramar Peninsula, or the entrance to Wellington Harbour seen from Houghton or Island Bay. Another drawing in pencil is on the verso, showing cabbage trees and a bush-clad inlet, with colour notes. Other Titles - New Zealand. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - N.Z. C. E. Gold [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 249 x 176 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

Date: [ca 1880]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: 1/2-078345-F

Description: Waikato River, near Taupiri, circa 1880. Shows cabbage trees in the foreground. Photograph taken by the Burton Brothers. Other Titles - Near Taupiri - Waikato Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 2487 Near Taupiri - Waikato Burton Brothers Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1885

From: [Doubleday, William and John], fl 1880s :[Twenty-three watercolours of New Zealand and the Pacific. 1884-1885]

Reference: C-150-005

Description: Shows a view looking across a bay to distant sea and headlands. There are tree ferns and cabbage trees in the foreground, and a house at the far right in the middle distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 120 x 185 mm.

Date: 1899

By: Elliott, George Herbert, 1860-1941; Dixon, Marmaduke John, 1862-1918

Reference: B-175-007

Description: Shows a view of the upper Waimakariri River, with snowy peaks of the Southern Alps in the distance. Two figures are standing on the shingle flats in the left foreground. There are cabbage trees on the headland at the right. The artist used the spelling "Eliot" up until 1910. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 203 x 292 mm (sight). Provenance: Originally a gift from the artist to Mr and Mrs Dixon. This is probably Mr & Mrs Marmaduke John Dixon who married Mabel Courage in 1897. The artist may have met the couple through Marmaduke Dixon's sister Rosa (later Rosa Spencer Bower), who studied at the Canterbury School of Art in the 1890s. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-169-001

Description: A wrecked rowboat in the foreground, washed up on the beach, a cabbage tree to the left. In the distance is Matakana Head. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Matakana Head [in brushpoint in capitals]; also bottom right, artist's intials W. H.; Recto - beneath image - Waikouaiti Beach [in pencil on attached label] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 132 x 267 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-334-079

Description: Shows a small farmhouse surrounded by a fence on a plain, with cabbage trees especially on a slope to the right and with hills in the background Suisted's station was called Goodwood Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 27 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1870 - 1880

By: Pharazyn, Frances Mary, 1847-1927; Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: B-062-023

Description: View through a gap in native bush in the foreground to houses and a church, with bush on the far side of the settlement. A small stream and a bridge can also be seen. Date of 1870s sugggested, since the artist's marriage in 1870 gave her Masterton connections. Described in McArthur's catalogue as View of Masterton but wrongly ascribed to Charles Johnston Pharazyn, husband of the artist. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - F. M. P. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 300 x 483 mm Provenance: Previously from the estate of Russell Smith, Te Hau, Masterton; previously in the collection of Ken Webster, London.

Date: 1844

By: Drake, James Charles, 1821-1865?; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-108-009

Description: View into the valley of the Pelorus River, with flaxes growing on rocks on the left, bush-clad islands with the occasional cabbage tree below, amongst the meanderings of the river. One of series of 8 drawings; see A108/007, "View of the Moketap ..." for information Other Titles - bearing Inscriptions: At head of drawing: "No. 3" (apparently numbered out of sequence) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink 174 x 259 mm

Date: 24 May 1889

From: Halse, Frederick James, 1863-1936 : Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/2-004063-G

Description: Overlooking Lowry Bay, Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, Wellington. Shows hills in the foreground, covered with native bush and cabbage trees. Photograph taken on 24 May 1889 by Frederick James Halse. Identified and dated from typescript index to negatives, housed at file TL 6/1/17. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches Processing information: Originally housed in Halse Collection box 4.