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Date: 1957

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 1/2-177203-F

Description: Unidentified male artist supporting a framed landscape painting of a small wooden church among dense trees. Photograph taken in 1957 by Morrie Hill. The photograph has been taken in the old National Art Gallery, Buckle Street, Wellington Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [between 1873 and 1886]

From: Burton Bros

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

Reference: PA7-05-25

Description: By Lake Taupo, from near Lofley's. Two unidentified men are visible. One is sketching. Photograph taken by the Burton Brothers circa 1873-1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3713 - Lake Taupo - From near Lofley's Burton Brothers Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.2 x 19.4 cm

Date: 1925 - 1948

From: [Gifford, Algernon Charles] 1862-1948 :[Hutt Valley scenes. ca 1930?]

Reference: A-200-004

Description: Pumpkin Cottage, used as a base by artists, with its associated farmhouse visible to the left through the surrounding trees, the Upper Hutt hills in the background. Inscriptions: Verso - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 355 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-334-053

Description: Top left, 'Mr Wills as he appeared while sketching at Tarawata's Kaik' shows Alfred Wills standing on a beach, with the kainga (kaik) in the background. He has a sketchpad in his hands. Top centre, a (Maori?) man's face, the back view probably of Wills, with a broad-brimmed hand and a pack on his back and a side view of a seated dog. Top right and across the bottom, diary notes for 3 to 7 October. '5 October - reached Waiteruati. 7 October visited the plantation behind the kaik ... Huirapa - Tarawata not yet taken' Tarawhata was the son of Ngai Tahu rangatira, Te Rehe Other Titles - Tarawhata Inscriptions: Recto - Top of page: Oct 3-7; Recto - top left - Beneath one sketch: Mr Wills as he appeared while sketching `Terawata's Kaik Quantity: 2 drawing(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1865

By: Johnston, John Tremenhere, active 1850s-1860s

Reference: B-079-022

Description: Shows the camp on the north bank of the river, with cows in foreground, and two soldiers, one apparently sketching, perhaps a self-portrait. The masts of three ships can be seen in the port area and there are futher military tents on the south bank of the river. Supplied title Attribution based on style and information from donor The camp was close to the earlier site of Waimate Pa, which was located at the top of the same bluff - compare two drawings by Charles Heaphy from 1839 - 'Waimate Pa, 1839' (A-164-008) and 'View on the Patea River, Cooks Straits' (A-146-004); also '[Album of an officer]. Left bank redoubt, R. Patea, 1865 3 May' (A-277-021). The redoubt on the south bank of the Patea, known as Dawson's Redoubt, was completed in February 1865 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 190 x 493 mm

Date: 1957

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 1/2-177201-F

Description: Unidentified woman artist supporting a framed painting of the head and shoulders of a man. Photograph taken in 1957 by Morrie Hill. The photograph has been taken in the old National Art Gallery, Buckle Street, Wellington Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1860s

From: Blundell, John Barraud, 1904-1975 : Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-044-01-1

Description: Photograph of the head and shoulders of Charles Decimus Barraud Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1871

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Sketchbook [of New Zealand views. 1871-1876].

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908; Hamblett, Irene Beatrix, 1915-1995

Reference: E-400-f-009

Description: Shows view of Waitemata Harbour from slopes above Parnell where an artist is sitting sketching the scene, with his dog. In middle distance is the church of St Stephen's. Specimens of cabbage tree and toetoe are in the foreground. On verso of E-400-f-008. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J.P.B. / 23.2.71; Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and monochrome wash, 261 x 370 mm.

Reference: 1/2-048809-F

Description: William Mathew Hodgkins and Frances Mary Hodgkins outside their house in Ravensbourne, Dunedin. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1957

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 1/2-177204-F

Description: Unidentified male artist supporting a framed still life painting depicting wine bottles on a circular table with a large bunch of roses behind them to the left. Photograph taken in 1957 by Morrie Hill. The photograph has been taken in the old National Art Gallery, Buckle Street, Wellington Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1885

By: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995; Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947

Reference: A-214-084

Description: Shows left profile, waist-length portrait of Isabel aged about 19, with bun, holding her hand-sewing rather close to her face. Inscriptions: Recto - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). 6.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Pencil on grey wove paper, 184 x 107 mm. Provenance: Estate of Eric McCormick, 1995. Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts and Archives, A95-145..

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

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

Reference: C-103-078

Description: Shows the interior of Te Punaomara Pa, Waitaki River, with food storage platforms, a whare, cooking pots on a fire, a blanket hung up to dry. A Maori woman is seated on the ground, wrapped in a blanket, and a man is seated in the distance. To the left is a European man drawing in his sketchbook (probably Mantell's travelling companion and fellow-surveyor, Alfred Wills), while the artist's own boots and pack are in the centre foreground. A dog is also seated to the right. Te Punaomara was a pa on the Waitaki River at the crossing place Other Titles - Te Punaomara Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen sketch 190 x 229 mm

Date: 1827 - 1838

From: Earle, Augustus 1793-1838 :Sketches illustrative of the Native Inhabitants and Islands of New Zealand from original drawings by Augustus Earle Esq, Draughtsman of H. M. S. "Beagle". London, Lithographed and Published under the auspices of the New Zealand Association by Robert Martin & Co, 1838

Reference: PUBL-0015-02

Description: The artist and his friend, Mr Shand, seated in a rocky inlet, surrounded by bush, in coversation with Hongi Hika and a group of family and other attendants. Two canoes are drawn up on the beach to the left and other Maori are visible in the distance. A carved figure leans from a rock behind and above Hongi. There are rifles and cartridge cases on the ground and one man is holding a taiaha. The scene is on a beach close to Russell (Kororareka) and took place in November 1827. Other Titles - Hongi Hika Based on an oil in the Library's collection: Meeting of the artist with the wounded chief Hongi, by Augustus Earle (G-707) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 239 x 379 mm

Date: 1947

From: The Group (Christchurch) :Retrospective exhibition, 1927-1947. Art Gallery Armagh Street, Christchurch, 3-13 November [1947. Catalogue].

By: Caxton Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: ArtEph-1947-G-01-cover

Description: Arrangement of text. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of folded brochure.. Physical Description: Letterpress, on cover of folded catalogue, 285 x 147 mm (folded)

Date: 1949

From: [MacDiarmid, Douglas Kerr], 1922- :[Portraits and studies. 1945-1949]

By: MacDiarmid, Douglas Kerr, 1922-2020

Reference: A-135-035

Description: Studies of artists John Drawbridge and Helen Hitchings, both sketching. Drawbridge is lying on the floor above a large sketchpad; Hitchings is on her back, propped up with a cushion, her sketchpad on her raised knees According to the artist (visited the Library, 1993) this was drawn in Wadestown, one of a series of drawings that a group of artists made of one another. The group included Drawbridge, Helen Hitchings, Douglas MacDiarmid and Juliet Peter Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 268 x 348 mm

Date: 1875

From: Gully, John, 1819-1888 :New Zealand scenery chomolithographed after original water-color drawings by John Gully with descriptive letterpress by Dr Julius von Haast. Dunedin, Henry Wise & Company ; London Marcus Ward & Co., 1877

Reference: PUBL-0010-02

Description: A view across a river valley towards mountains. In the foreground, a figure with a sketchbook is seated on rocks amidst tussock, toetoe and low scrub with bush below him. A disbound copy is held by the Library at B-080-022 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 305 x 379 mm

Date: 1865 - 1866

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: PUBL-0033-1866-417

Description: A large group of Maori men performing a haka, shown at a moment of leaping in the air. They are carrying a mixture of muskets and spears, and dressed in mixed European and Maori clothing. They are observed by a group of European and Maori men and women, with the artist's self portrait sketching near the centre in the foreground. In the background are low hills of Tauranga with several European buildings and a few military tents. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 225 mm

Date: 1957

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 1/2-177200-F

Description: Artist Helen Crabb supporting a framed drawing of a group of children around a table. Photograph taken in 1957 by Morrie Hill. The photograph has been taken in the old National Art Gallery, Buckle Street, Wellington Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1957

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 1/2-177197-F

Description: Unidentified male artist supporting a framed painting of a woman seated on a chair, photographed by Morrie Hill. The photograph has been taken in the old National Art Gallery, Buckle Street, Wellington Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1957

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 1/2-177202-F

Description: Peter McIntyre displaying one of his landscape paintings (of a gorge). Photograph taken in 1957 by Morrie Hill. The photograph has been taken in the old National Art Gallery, Buckle Street, Wellington Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).