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Date: 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: B-103-015

Description: Shows a military encampment on the left, settlers houses and the barracks on Marsland Hill towards the right. At the foot of Marsland Hill is St Mary's Church. Mount Taranaki is in the background Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Inscribed on painting: N.Plymouth; Recto - beneath image - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 180 x 170 mm

Date: 1860

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

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-012

Description: View in New Plymouth, looking east towards Mount Taranaki, with St Mary's church below Marsland Hill and stockade in the centre, other buildings in the foreground, including another church [?], possibly the Wesleyan chapel, at the skyline on the left beside a cabbage tree, Huatoki Stream, two Maori families, a European on horseback at the stream's edge and two European women doing their washing in the stream. On the verso are streaks of blue paint, where the artist has tried out various colours Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in ink; Album page - beneath image - Taranaki N.Z. [images removed from album, but album is stored in the adjacant box] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 154 x 215 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

Date: 1847

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-063

Description: Houses (including Webster's and Robinson's), St Mary's Church and churchyard, Maori cultivation, Marsland Hill, with Maori and European fortifications, and areas of fern and garden marked on a drawing from the New Zealand Company Lands Office looking inland into New Plymouth township. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 161 x 245 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: [1900s]

Reference: 1/2-139976-F

Description: Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-090-009

Description: Shows conical military tents in the foreground and Marsland Stockade on the central hill in the middle distance, with a flag flying. To the right are St Mary's Church and several houses. On the verso is glued part of the catalogue for 'Sixteenth competitive exhibition, the National Gallery, North Terrace, Adelaide, 28th December 1883' with a list of the first 26 paintings awarded a prize. It is inscribed in pencil 'Gold Papers' Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & ink, 178 x 203 mm

Date: Ca 1910

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001059-G

Description: St Mary's Church, New Plymouth. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1910. Other - Note on back of file print reads "Ca 1910. North porch coped in 1903. Transept added 1915". Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - St Mary's Church. New Plymouth. [No.] 400 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1915

From: New Zealand. Department of Agriculture :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-007573-G

Description: Overlooking New Plymouth from Marsland Hilll, in 1915. St Mary's Anglican Church is in the foreground. In the distance, signs advertising Deares Boot Arcade and Sutton's Pedigree Clovers are visible. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1860

By: Harris, Edwin, 1810?-1895; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: C-030-010

Description: Shows the township seen from Marsland Hill with the harbour and Sugar Loaf Rocks in the background and St Mary's Church with the beginnings of the new additions, started in 1860, in the foreground. Also various regiments (including 40th?) and encampments near church, military hospitals, Marsland Hotel, and various other churches. cf. Taranaki Museum's watercolour and pencil drawings of the same scene, and Hocken's col. lithographs, all signed by Edwin Harris, Harris may have copied Gold, and this painting has been attributed to Gold in the past. See Otago Daily Times, 9 Jan 1982, p. 30 for further confirmation of attribution The lithographic copy of this image in St Mary's Church, New Plymouth includes a key to various features. The title is New Plymouth from Marsland Hill. To the left of St Mary's, the two-storied building is Marsland Hotel and military Hospital. To the right, across the road, past the troops, the high-gabled single-storey building with a small porch by its door is the Maori Chapel. The two-storied building opposite the chapel is the Military Hospital. Further off to the right, the tallest building is the Wesleyan Chapel. The flagstaff on the hill between St Mary's and the sea marks the "sailors camp on Mt Elliott". Inscriptions: Mount verso - 40th Regiment, Taranaki, New Plymouth, N.Z. about 1840? Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 270 x 560 mm Provenance: George Page Cooper, Melbourne; purchased Joel's Auction, Melbourne, Nov. 1967.

Date: 1860

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888; Day & Son (Firm)

Reference: B-051-015

Description: Shows a number of block-houses grouped round the settlement. Mt Egmont is in the distance and the sea in the foreground. The perspective of the foreground is a bird's-eye view. It includes the houses, St Mary's church, and other buildings of New Plymouth After a watercolour by John Gully in Archives New Zealand. See Ellis, E. M. & D. G. Early prints of NZ (Christchurch, 1972), item no. 630 The majority of these forts were never built Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph in tints, 221 x 340 mm on sheet 320 x 400 mm

Date: 1847

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-061

Description: A detailed view of the houses and streets in the town from a high viewpoint, (the hill behind St Mary's Church) looking out to the west towards the sea. St Mary's Church and the churchyard are in the left foreground. The names of several house-owners are given, along with details of other features, including the houses of [William] Lakeman, Dorset, [Richard] Brown, "G. Inn" [Government Inn?] New Zealand Company houses [i.e. the immigration barracks], the gaol, Kawau Pa on the right, near the sea, a store (or stone?) house, the mill [Huatoki] stream, grass, streets, the bridge and gardens. The position of the South Huatoki Reef is also given, just out to sea, in line with the corner of the pa on the right. Brougham Street runs down the centre of the view, diagonally from the right bottom corner, with Vivian Street branching off to the right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 163 x 243 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: ca 1857

Reference: PAColl-2238

Description: View of New Plymouth, captioned Taranaki NZ, looking south to township with Marsland Hill stockade in the distance on the left and St Mary's Anglican Church on the right of Marsland Hill. Photographer unknown. Cut down from a 1/2 plate negative. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1043 10x8 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1860

From: Urquhart album

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878

Reference: PA1-q-250-05

Description: Photograph of an ink and watercolour painting, dated 1860 and signed by Joseph Osbertus Hamley. Looks over New Plymouth from Marsland Hill. St Mary's Anglican church is in the foreground. The Huatoki River is visible. The camp on the right is occupied by Imperial forces of the 65th Regiment, under the command of Lieutenant Urquhart. Photograph taken by John Nicol Crombie circa 1861. Hamley's painting is probably a copy of an Edwin Harris lithograph held in the Taranaki Museum. Arrangement: In folder stored with album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.3 x 21.3 cm, with trimmed corners, mounted on card 18.4 x 21.2 cm Processing information: Record was updated on 15 August 2022 to allow the attached digital surrogate to be purchasable.

Date: 1852 - 1891

Reference: A-197-021

Description: View from the Kawau Pah; text at bottom of engraving gives names of house owners. The view shows Mount Egmont in the background, St Mary's Church and Marsland Stockade in the background to the left, settlers' houses and the Huatoki Stream in the left foreground Reproduction from Taranaki Jubilee Chronicle, 31 March 1891 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 95 x 135 mm